The title is an example of idea i think Brainstorm have to hide : Some ideas are too logical.
Examples :
- Add software 2.0 and not software 1.9
- Support acpi
- Speed Up boot time
- Better wi-fi support
- ...
In fact, these ideas are good ideas and everyone will vote for. But little ideas but good ideas are hidden because can't obtain same scores.
We can vote "for" or "against" an idea. We could clic on a "too logical" button and if "too logical" have a important score we hide this ideas. A visitor could watch all ideas, but by defaut done and "too logical" should be hides.
Written by nickr the 6 Jan 11 at 20:18.
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Presently, Ubuntu users do not have a user-friendly way of controlling what applications can connect to the internet. They also do not have a user-friendly way of learning what applications are making internet connections.
Being able to stay abreast of and control outgoing internet connections provides users with increased privacy and security while giving them more control in general over the "comings and goings" on their computer. Having control over outgoing connections is also needed for financial reasons. I have to use a mobile-broadband connection for work. The mobile-broadband plans available to me all limit the amount of data I can use per month. To conserve as much broadband data usage as possible, it would be helpful to have global control over what applications can connect to the internet. With Microsoft Windows, this can be accomplished via an outgoing application-based firewall. Unfortunately, no such firewall exists for Ubuntu and there appears to be no way of globally blocking all applications from accessing the internet until they are given explicit permission by the user to connect. For example, if I am using Firefox to browse the web (I obviously need Firefox to have an internet connection), but if I then open Rhythmbox to simply listen to some mp3s on my hardrive while I am using Firefox, Rhythmbox will automatically establish an internet connection when it is opened. I don't need nor want Rhythmbox to connect to the internet unless it is specifically required for the task I'm trying to accomplish. Unnecessary connections it establishes are "wasting" the mobile-broadband data available to me for the month.
It seems to me that a solution to the problem will involve:
1.) some method for communicating an application's internet connections to the user.
2.) giving users control over if and when an application is allowed an internet connection. For example, when I start Rhythmbox, if it was to ask, "Can I connect to the internet now?" before connecting, I would have control over its connection behavior and I could give it permission when an internet connection is needed.
Written by maix the 1 Mar 08 at 21:21.
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Many programs create backup files when saving a file (gedit for example). It would be useful if, when you delete or move a file, you get prompted if you like to delete/move the backup file, too
Written by bpb101 the 7 Mar 12 at 22:40.
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we all use the calendar on our phone to remind us of upcoming events , eg a meeting.
i think if you select a date on the calender you should be able to put a event in.
and use the notification center to tell us of an upcoming event
Written by spg76 the 28 Feb 08 at 17:50.
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I've been playing around with Apple Mac OS X Leopard and, although the system didn't impress me that much, I loved one feature that I really like to see in Ubuntu.
It's called Quick Look, and allows you to view the contents of a file without open its default application.
This is great when you have a folder with different types of files (JPG, MPG, DOC) and you want see the content of the files quickly without open many applications (Eog, Totem, OpenOffice Writer in this case)
You can look how this work in Mac OS X on here, here and here.
Following an idea from @Pepperpupper, would be interesting if, instead any idea of idea deletion, since all ideas have at least something can be valuable (it's a holy true), these ideas being able to be voted as category tags, which latelly would be find from the search engine and from a tag or category menu.
By the way, this webpage is about Brainstorm and Ubuntu, two wonderful words and philosophies can't be destroyed with deletions...
Resynthesizer is a plug-in for Gimp which works like the "Content aware Fill"-Filter from Adobe Photoshop. It's already available in the Ubuntu Universe.
Resynthesizer is a Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis. Given a sample of a texture, it can create more of that texture. This has a surprising number of uses:
* Creating more of a texture (including creation of tileable textures)
* Removing objects from images (great for touching up photos)
* Creating themed images (such as the Resynthesizer logo above)
Written by Endolith the 21 Oct 08 at 14:19.
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I just realized that Brainstorm allows some HTML in the comments, but I can't find any documentation. http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com provides a list of valid tags underneath their comments box, and this should be provided on Brainstorm, too.
(I will test in the comments below this to see if the same subset of tags work. In the descriptions, links seem to be the only thing supported.)