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I am currently writing my thesis on Ubuntu for which I need to read a lot of pdf documents and because of this I often have up to 10 pdf documents open on the taskbar.

This would be fine if I could easily identify them. The titles which appear on top of the window and on the taskbar are really strange though. They do not show the filenames but some kind of original filename what it once used to be I guess.

I named a pdf for example as follows:
"Acceptability of urban transport pricing strategies 2000.pdf"
but what I see is this:
"Microsoft Word - deliverable 2c_m.doc"

This is very confusing and because of it I often rather work in Windows than in Ubuntu. I guess this is an issue which could be solved easily. I would love to have it fixed asap!

LXDE is a Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Its lighter and faster then Xfce but much more beautiful and featureful then Fluxbox.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/

It slow down a lot in my notebook PC. The home directory contains one large subversion directory which contain about 200,000 small files, there also some other large files such the image of CD (iso), multimedia files. When I login the gnome, I have to wait for some munites before I can do anything! At the last, I found out that it's the trackerd which scaned all of the hard driver.

There are some other complains:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/46/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/476/

my notebook PC:
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.40GHz, cache size: 1024 KB
RAM: 1.2G
HD: 40G

In this config menu we could have time to keep files before deletion, whether or not the trash has a limited size, or whether or not items to the trash are deleted immediately (what I most want).

I commonly want to delete a movie or recorded tv show after I watch it. The downside is that since the media is on another hard drive, trash actually copies the file to my .trash folder on my main system drive and then the file sits there until I tell it to empty.

Give me a trash bin configuration menu. When I want to delete a file, I shouldn't have to open a terminal to type "rm " something.

The smart phone will use wireless connectivity to "borrow" the screen from a nearby computer, monitor, or TV. It can use bluetooth, infrared, wifi, or a wire if necessary to allow a person to use their facility with their own smart phone to manipulate and see better on a nearby screen.

This would not be remotely controlling the other machine. It would be broadcasting to the other screen in the room.

I'm new to ubuntu but I feel that we should have a better default sound changer gui.

Say change the default sound to usb headphones or such.

the current system works great but with others progs such as java and such not recognizing the current style and using the default, some sort of solution needs to be addressed there

these improvements it needs:
scroll files without line breaks.
show wrapped parts of lines.
open big files not reading the file wholly, only the part viewable on the current scroll position.
also then that can be used as fast viewer for big files like log files and database files.
maybe also this would be good: support for big html files with parsing not the whole file, but starting from the local position being viewed. it should at least support links. that was needed one time in "windows" when i had downloaded a manual of php in single html file from php.net and only the tool to comfortably browse its anchors was total commander's lister (pgdn or bckspace, don't remember, makes "go back" in it).
07:02:
and also "cannot open this binary file" of gedit should be fixed.

Here's the thing... We have a notification area that is supposed to be there for stuff not permanent. But now when I start up my Ubuntu (hardy) I have the network manager, tracker, Pidgin, power-manager, etc, etc, etc.
I don't care about my network if it's working... so it shouldn't show unless I'm not connected.
I don't care about tracker being updated and if I want to search I already have the deskbar-applet up there.
Pidgin should also be an applet or at least have an option of being permanent or not.
I don't even know what power-manager do on my system... it's a desktop system not a laptop.


There are lots of "permanent" icons there that shouldn't be there.

If an idea is just bad, close votation for it and mark with "rejected". E.g.: "Close Ubuntu source". This is obviously bad, so close votation and mark as "rejected".

Scale in compiz is a very nice way of switching between windows. But it won't show minimized windows and this should be an option.

I want to see in the terminal that when you type in anything and then press up or down, that it will go through the history and find the first command that started with the typed out string. This would save me lots of time instead of going through up to 20 commands to try to find the one I want.

Nautilus only has one dedicated hacker (Christian Neumair) although it's a crucial part of Gnome. Still studying, it's difficult for him to give as much attention as he would like to every help request, and new hackers.
More genreally, in the context of Gnome 3.0, Gnome needs at least another Nautilus hacker (a Gnome hacker who would specialize into Nautilus' internals)

It seems that the "Device is now safe to remove" pop-up message, when unmounting a USB device such as a flash drive, assumes that you only have one partition on said device. If you have two or more partitions, it shows up a separate "Device is now safe to remove" message for each volume you unmount, and if you do them all in succession, you get the pop-ups stacked neatly on top of each other in the corner of your screen (observed on Hardy 32-bit and 64-bit).

This presents problems for new users - if you've unmounted one volume, but not another on the same USB device, then the device is clearly not safe for disconnecting yet and the pop-up message is misleading.

Additionally, safely unmounted USB devices still appear in Gnome's "Computer" window (Places->Computer), but finally disappear when you physically disconnect the USB device. This can confuse users as well.

Finally, the way Ubuntu disconnects USB devices seems to be different to how Windows does it. Even though Ubuntu is satisfied that the device has been safely disconnected, the device itself believes otherwise. A typical example is pretty much any Nokia mobile phone that can act as a USB flash device such as a Nokia N95 - upon disconnecting the USB cable after a successful unmount, the phone insists that the disconnection was unclean and that "data could be lost". It only records a clean disconnection from Ubuntu if you perform a shutdown on Ubuntu (suggesting that the phone is only satisfied when the USB stack is finally shutdown). Not a big deal for experienced users who know that a safe disconnection did occur, but will certainly send new users into panic stations.

I really like to see an option in calculator to switch to tape mode, like in this picture made with gimp:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8210/calcnewnn6.png

There are some programs, codecs, files which are not allowed to ship with the distribution and to have in the repos due to license reasons.
But a lot of users have them installed and new ubuntu users often want them, too. They want to listen to mp3, watch dvd or ...
I.e. acroread or libdvdcss could not be found, if you search in your packet manager.

Today I got a pdf and had to open it via acroread, because evince could not display everything. (guess there was something wrong with the pdf)
I missed acroread in the repos and searching around for adobe, pdf and so on and on, because I didn't know, that Adobe changed its license.

I think, it would be very comfortable, if one searches in the package manager and could find a hint, where to download the program, codec and other often looked for programs.

I would appreciate a short message like: "Due to license reasons this program can't be downloaded from this repo. Please have a look at ... and gpl-licence at ... for further information."

Wouldn't it be nice for new users, to find this info, if they look for a codec or something similar popular in the package manager?

I hope, I could make myself a bit clear. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

i think it would be cool, if we have a plugin for kate and gedit to display the syntax of functions.

For example take php program when you type function mail
it should display like

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

The under 10 MB Minimal Install CD is an excellent tool, especially when someone wants a fresh install of the various Ubuntu variations with the latest packages. As the Desktop now includes and OEM option, it would be nice to have this option on the Minimal Install CD

Problem:
Mac OS X's killer app Expose has an equivalent in KDE: Kompose, which is a great time-saver and can speed up workflow.
Gnome also needs a expose equivalent, so why not use the pre-existing kompose itself?
Unfortunately, in gnome Kompose is visually buggy, probably reflecting the lack of gnome-side integration of Kompose.

I expect, like Quicksilver inspiring Katapult inspiring Gnome-do, someone will probably eventually decide to work on making a completely custom gnome version of Kompose, when what we really need is a joint venture so that the level of functionality can hope to approach the slick and oh-so-useful functionality that mac OS X's expose -already- provides.

Kompose doesn't even show up in the project-related list here, and it should, for its usefulness.

When you first start using pidgin, if you have multiple IM conversations, the default behavior is to have one IM window with multiple tabs, but most other IM clients just open multiple windows.

(To turn off tabs:
Buddy List > Tools > Preferences > Uncheck: Show IMs and Chats in Tabbed Windows)

I think it would be very good for Linux in general if there would exist a packaging format which nearly all distributions would support.
I do not mean every distribution should use deb or rpm, I mean a new packaging format which should be like a layer above rpm and deb and which should be able to integrate in many of the existing packaging systems. So for the user it should not be different to install like a deb file.
With this there would be an unified Linux package but the distributions can provide there own packages in their own packaging format too.
So then it would be much easier to develop programs for Linux.

I know Ubuntu cannot make this alone but Ubuntu can start and try to get all the distributions together for this.

I think the packaging problem is one of the greatest issues of Linux and should be fixed as soon as possible.