Each time I plugin my usb-headset or my usb-sound-system I have to go to "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Sound" and define the the default device. After that I must restart the running applications to move the streams to the new snd-device.This each time I plugin a new usb-sound-device. This long way could be easier.

I know most people love the subpixel smoothing in gutsy, but on some monitors including mine (LCD) it is just painful to look at with a greeny blur around all text, and if you take a screenshot on my monitor and view it on another monitor it looks just fine. some monitors are just like that and changing the monitor settings makes no difference (believe me, i've spent hours if not days trying out all possible configurations)

In Feisty it was perfect on my monitor. so why not add an option to choose 'modern' or 'legacy' subpixel smoothing in the fonts dialog?

When users change their wallpaper to a non-brown one, the screen color while it loads during login remains tan; this can look really, really bad. One logs in; a tan color displays; then a violent blue picture replaces it.

The availing solution is manually changing the default login-background (not the normal background) at /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default. If the user does not know where this is or how to edit it, the visual flaw remains.

Can you allow people to opt-out of endangering things like the MS codec tax implicit in remix? just like it seems to happen with real player?

http://www.canonical.com/netbooks

Look at:
"† Choice of one media player
* Only available with Real Player "

I want the same for windows media codecs, I don't want MS to receive money for software they didn't make, I must say that I am quite turned down a bit by this, it is a bad precedent to see Canonical to paying a MS tax in such a critical project as Remix.

While we are at it, could we have an ubuntu remix that's as decent as the real ubuntu in regards to freedom? As in... you need to opt-in in order to install restricted stuff? I don't want things to get over expensive because I am paying for things like flash or adobe reader or MS' codecs. In all seriousness, aren't there FOSS PDF readers for portables? That thing got even open office so...

Since Hardy was released, I've been amazed at the amount of posts from users trying to change permissions on external drives in order to obtain write access. People try to help by offering solutions that involve chmod and chown, but in every case, the user has not been able to write to the volume because it has been mounted read-only due to filesystem errors. This is easy to fix - but not obvious to the user.

FAT volumes are particularly problematic, especially if they are not cleanly unmounted.

I have just triaged a bug on Launchpad with exactly this issue, and it is just something that seems to crop up again-and-again-and-again-and-again etc.

We should have a notification pop-up which gives information to the user when they insert a volume that has errors. The notification pop-up should tell them that the volume is read only, and should offer advice for the user to fix it.

when i was looking through ubuntu's documentation the other day i was reading about new users swaping from windows OS it said its recommended to convert audio and video files to a formats that works best without loss quality so i was thinking that ubuntu could produce encoding software so that people does not have to go back to windows and recode all their files they can just do it while their there using ubuntu.

I'm not giving a specific solution, but i'm pointing a fact that i think it's interesting to discuss:

Many people are suspicious about general quality of implementation, even when everything works flawessly. A good example is audio. Even when audio cards work well under Ubuntu, some (audiophiles, etc) think the sound will always be better with Windows because the oficial proprietary driver should sound better than the opensource ones. Other example: users usually choose Mac for multimedia tasks, because it's "powerful and stable" for multimedia. Although it may be generally true, there is a lot of marketing envolved.

So, let's "advertise" and give proof of the true potencial of Ubuntu and it's quality.

You aren't voting for an idea, but a solution.
Similarly, though you are promoting an idea, it's a solution you want people to support.
This is problematic, because different solutions for the same idea can oppose each other.
Also, ideas may have remotely associated solutions, which would be better as ideas on their own.
The separation of ideas/solution often makes it difficult to spot duplicates.
Also, this may misguide voters, who may demote a solution which, on its own, is actually beneficial, but does not necessarily address a given idea/problem directly.

The main objetive to do this is simple: marketing.

It's not the same saying "Ubuntu is a great OS with many applications like text-processors, video players, good internet browsers, etc" that saying, ..."and it has got really, really good games".

Of course, some people doesn't care about games (people who uses Ubuntu to work, for example) but, some young people (and game-lovers) could be attracted to Ubuntu community by this mean.

When I talk of great games, I mean those which are supported, have got a long well-developped storyline and of course, have got a big community and really good graphics. Examples of these games are Battle for Wesnoth, OpenArena, Glest, Supertux, Sauberbraten, Freeciv, and Tux Racer.

Thus, this community would make publicity of Ubuntu saying to Windows users things that: "bah, I cand do this and also has many good free games", "the other day I was playing a great game... Sorry is only for Ubuntu Linux, not for Windows"... And things like that. Simply marketing.

So, once the major bugs of Ubuntu were corrected, the majority of hardware were well-supported, it would be interesting to do this to fix "bug number one".

A larger preview (than an icon) of the documents in a folder would be nice. It does not need to be in apple style. It could be something original. Ideally it would be nice being able to trace the history of a document and being able to go back to an older version.