Gnome needs a revoultion. Ubuntu uses Gnome.
Canonical could help the Gnome3-developers e.g. with money, tips, pc-resources or something else to speed up the development and to create a better Gnome3-release.
(KDE4 has much more features than Gnome, it is faster and looks better (my oppinion). Also it uses the powerful Qt4 as widgetset that is better than GTK+ at time. Gnome is going to leave behind KDE)
[edit] I dont't say that any DE is better, but Gnome needs help and Ubuntu primary uses Gnome. KDE4 is a great DE without help from the Ubuntu developers. [/edit]
[Sorry for my English]

In Nautilus (Gnome default file manager), right clicking a file and selecting "Open with... other application" brings up a dialog with the following issues:

1. The application list is not consistent with other application menus, e.g. the one on the panel

2. Some applications are not listed (these apps are added to the other menus though)

3. The non-modifiable behaviour is to set the "other application" as the default for that file type so an option to "use this as the default application for this file type" should be added

Example for #3:
- I have a PDF file
- I want to open it with PDFedit
- It is not in the open with menu
- Select it through open with other application
- It now becomes the default however I still want evince to be the default PDF viewer
- I have to repeat the above to open with evince to make that the default again

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

Have a tutorial obviously available from the command line that hits the highlights of things that you might want to do, especially as a new user. This is for the situation where a new user, familiar only with the GUI, ends up on the command line perhaps because something went wrong. I'd like to see something that users would stumble into, maybe something that comes up if you enter a few invalid commands. You shouldn't have to 'just know' some command to get this option.

The current 'help' command is not a tutorial, and is not very friendly. When you type help from the command line, many of the commands scroll off the top of the screen. Nor are man pages a tutorial - help and man are both references for people who already can get around a bit on the command line.

Change start page of Brainstorm to show latest ideas or something, else people will probably push for the already high-graded ideas and won't care of other newer ideas.

Maybe a page with random ideas?

And remove the grades if not specifically requested, since it will affect peoples voting.

All the packages in the software repository should include a URL hyperlink to the official website of the software.

So when you read about the software, you can click on the link to get to the official homepage, for more information.

Reading through a bunch of the ideas presented here it is obvious that if Ubuntu implemented a fraction of them the OS would become a bit hefty.

My suggestion is instead of trying to replace everything with a GUI that instead we provide documentation on using the terminal. The users need to be educated on how to use the command line. It's very powerful and fast.

Provide a database of useful commands and make the information in the database organized, searchable, and well documented.

For example:
Making an ISO. dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso bs=1024
Searching for files. find / -name "*searchCriteria*"
how to show processes and kill 'em. ps -u user ... Kill -9 #####


Perhaps others here can comment with their most useful command lines and we can create a package on our own instead of armchair quarterbacking the ubuntu team?

A developer flagged my idea as "won't implement", but from his comment its pretty obvious to me that he didn't really read it. The developer is anonymous, and there's no way to send them a message. I find this highly irritating!

The scenario is this: I have a directory full of a ton of movie files. I use file search to find a subset of these files. Now I want to drag those movies to a folder someplace. But when I do that, nautilus starts copying the files instead of moving them!

The file search would be much handier for me if I could select a number of files from the search and MOVE them into a directory. With dragging, currently this is either impossible or not obvious. There's nothing wrong with having the copy option too, but you should be able to do both, and to me, file moving should be the default.

I really like the front page displaying the most popular ideas of the day. However, if you know when the busy times of the day/week are, you can guarantee your idea to be a top idea for that day, week, and month because of timing. The votes/time sorting method is catering to timing, even though time is arbitrary.

I propose to modify the sorting method to either replace the current front page, or at least as an option to test out. Instead of the time bonus, I propose a "views" bonus. This would tend to bring ideas with fewer viewers to the front, and cycle through them. Also, ideas you voted on should be removed from the home page (continue to display them in other searches)

so logically: sorting value = [#Votes]/[#Views]

Once the idea gets front page exposure, unless it kept its vote to view ratio high, it would eventually slip its way down the pile and make room for other ideas who did not have such a good chance. It would behave as if a water pump were pumping water to the surface inside a large bucket of water. Only the popular ones would stay at the top. But even the bottom feeders would have their 5 seconds of fame, so long as they gained some amount of initial support.

You would want to make sure that each post kept track of its views by user. So if a user refreshes the page 20 times, it only gets 1 view. And anonymous views should not count, only logged in views. you might also want to make each page of results a little shorter so ideas at the bottom aren't given views which are never actually looked at by the user.

Thanks for listening.