When I use Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Git, Mercurial etc. I have to use the command-line or some standalone gui program. This is a lot of overhead because I usually do have a nautilus window open which is showing the working directory.
I would like to have an application which integrates fine into nautilus and has similar capabilities like tortoisesvn has for windows - see http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ExplorerIntegration.html for some screenshots.
Of course this new application should not be installed by default because it confuses new users. It would be nice if there could be one single application that supports many backends for different version control systems.

Many people and programmers wish to dive into the source code of software to improve it.

Open source is great, but programming can be difficult and daunting because often the code may appear complex. Analyzing it can be very time consuming and daunting.

People may have difficulties in understanding the source code and getting involved with the development.

Sometimes when you have a unknown file, open it in a text editor can give you a hint. Even if the file is binary, you can found text in the header or somewhere.

Gedit should have the possibilities to open any kind of file. and if it's a binary file, display it in hex view with text view on a side column.

Plus, this is a good way to provide a hex editor by default without spreading the fear to new users with an additional program "WTF is that new sh*t in my application menu??"

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I suggest to the Ubuntu community, we should have a unique and complete development studio, in order to create great applications very coupled to the Operating System, in order to take advantage of the environment, standardize programming languages and not to fill up the system resources with a lot of interpreters, runtime or whatever frameworks.

For example, on Mac OS they have XCode, in Window$ Visual Studio, inclusive on KDE they have KDeveloper.

From my experience, when I try to make some software for ubuntu, I find great quantity of software development tools which makes difficult the choice.

I know that freedom comes with the liberty to choose too, and is ok, but in this aspect i thought that as a community we need to follow a North, and not everyone go to everywhere without any roadmap, each one going some on foot, some on cars, and in other parts (Mac, Win) going on airplanes...

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If "dive into python" is included in help then why not throw
some more free programming books in?There are plenty of good ones.

Bluefish is great if not awesome for writing code, i like it that way and many people do. and i DON'T want WYSIWYG editor, i just want Bluefish appear better, the GUI needs some work and specially the icons, icons need to be better than that.

What if the API documentation and specs for all the development packages available in Ubuntu would be gathered in a common website?
On top of that, it would be possible to link articles, blog posts describing some coding example related to a given lib.

An example of the website organization:
* hardy
* gutsy
** Audio
** Kernel
** GUI
*** Qt
*** GTK+
**** API docs
**** specs
**** links to external code sample

The main goal of this idea is to lower the barrier for new contributing coders by making an easy access to all the docs, samples, specs, helloworlds in a single place.

On the server side, this should somehow be automatic, to make needed human interaction as mimimum as possible.

What is this website for? I see lots of outstanding ideas but I see pratically none of them actually being implemented or at least in development. I see no point of having a website like this if things aren't actually going to be done. I know it's easy bitching about it than actually do something, but I'll start doing my part and work in a project from an idea proposed.

Why can't all Linux distributions work together and add the features and good parts of one another so they are all awesome? Why can't they share code, exchange it, improve it, pass it on, and continue?

I've heard OpenSUSE has a good installer, Linux Mint has nailed the "polish" factor of the theme, Fedora has this or that, DSL is light as a feather, etc.

Why can't all the code be shared among distributions? I know there are different window managers and different languages, but for distributions that share the same language in an aspect, why can't the two be combined into something awesome and implemented in both? Even if a different language or system is used, why can't certain features be implemented in the distro's own way?

The advancement of Linux would reach a speed untouchable by proprietary software if this happened; it's already faster but why can't we make all of this as good and fast as possible?

I know different distributions have different goals and philosophies and all, so I'm not saying copy everyone by everyone else. I'm saying if a feature or system would fit in well with another distribution than the original, then why is it not implemented immediately and re-fitted to work perfectly with the original distro?

I know I'm being very general but plenty of people have talked about distro A having this while distro B should share it- it would work well, etc.

Nautilus has not a good way to comunicate with other applications, it would be great to share selected file(s), sorting order and a lot of things, as well as change things from nautilus from other applications