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Ubuntu should provide an easy method to customize system sounds  
Written by Porky the 20 Sep 12 at 10:13. New
Third-party softwares may be buggy and manually placing the sound files into the system is a pain. Ubuntu should have an option in the sound system settings to allow users to easily switch sound schemes or change the sounds for certain events.
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Solution #1: Add a feature page in the sound system menu to customize sounds
Written by Porky the 20 Sep 12 at 10:13.
Add a page inside the sound system settings GUI that would allow users to easily add and select sound schemes or install/select seperate sounds for each and every sound event.
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Solution #3: Equalizer and installable system sounds
Written by JoRijo the 21 Feb 13 at 03:45.
add option to install other system sounds, besides the ones available for alert sounds, and save/load presets.
Add equalizer for system wide and application specific (like there is now for volume), and add save/load presents.

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Dash doesn't save settings for results filtering  
Written by Porky the 1 Nov 12 at 21:39. New
The Unity Dash doesn't save the results filtering between sessions. As soon as the user relogs, the filters are reset to the default settings. Users should have an option to save those results between sessions. This is quite handy when it comes to the video lens, the 3rd-party news lens, the music lens (when choosing the source scope [IE banshee or rhythmbox] and the gwibber lens.
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Solution #1: Add an option to save the results filtering of the dash in the system settings
Written by Porky the 1 Nov 12 at 21:39.
Add a button in one of the submenus of the system settings that enables the user to toggle on/off the saving of the results filtering between sessions.

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Ubuntu needs a tool that collects feed from websites and applications  
Written by Porky the 20 Sep 12 at 10:25. New
Someone has already proposed the idea of a unity notification center that allows users to see system feeds. What I'm proposing is something more. We need a tool that collects feeds from different websites as well as the system and posts them in a notification center/lens. It should also notify users through a bubble or a popup notification. The world is becoming more dependant on the internet and the web is becoming more social so we need a tool that is integrated into our system that notifies us of anything that needs our attention in our system and on the web; without having to open websites, we can see if there are any notifications awaiting us. Just like iOS has a push notification system as well as badges and Mac OS X has a notification center to allow users to stay updated, Ubuntu should have something similar that rids us of the compulsion of frequentlty checking our applications or social websites.
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Solution #1: Unity Notification Center
Written by Porky the 20 Sep 12 at 10:25.
Create a unity notification center (UNC) that is unobtrusive and easy to call and dismiss. We could add our credentials in the UNC and it would check for feeds across several social websites and the installed applications as well as system updates. It would also keep track of past notifications and would allow us to quickly review what happened when we were away. UNC should allow us to easily silence the applications we don't want to be notified about such as music players.

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Integrate Thunderbird more tightly into Unity  
Written by Porky the 21 Sep 12 at 17:48. New
There are various issues when it comes to Unity and Thunderbird. Thunderbird is the default mail application in Ubuntu yet the Calendar Applet in Unity still uses Evolution instead of Lightning. The Messaging Menu doesn't check for new messages unless Thunderbird is running in the background. Lastly, Thunderbird's quicklist can be expanded; for instance a calendar command can be added to open lightning directly. Thunderbird is an amazing email-client and it definitely needs more integration into the desktop.
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Solution #1: Pre-install Lightning and integrate it with a mail checking daemon into unity
Written by Porky the 21 Sep 12 at 17:48.
With Lightning pre-installed into Ubuntu, the Calendar Applet can support Thunderbird by default instead of Evolution (which isn't even installed by default!). A daemon can be created to watch for incoming mails when thunderbird is closed and it would notify the user through the messaging menu. A command line and a quicklist option can be written to allow Lightning to run without having to open then main window of Thunderbird.

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Notify OSD lacks the ability to view several items at once and to dismiss items  
Written by Porky the 1 Nov 12 at 21:45. Not an idea
The Unity notification bubbles can sometimes get in the way. Even if they become transluscent, the user should have the ability to dimiss the bubble on demand. Also, when several items are in queue, it would take the Notify OSD quite a while to process them all and it can be annoying to watch the notification bubble flicker over and over.
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Solution #1: Double clicking on the notification bubble dismisses the notification
Written by Porky the 1 Nov 12 at 21:45.
When a user double-clicks on the notification bubble, it should be dismissed.
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Solution #2: Display multiple items at once
Written by Porky the 1 Nov 12 at 21:48.
Notify OSD should be able to display more than one item at once. Perhaps when more than one item are trying to use the notification bubble, the bubble can be enlarged vertically to host two notifications at once. A thin seperator should be in between them. If more than two items are present, the user should be able to see the other items by hovering the mouse over the bubble and scrolling down with the scroll button. A thin, glassy small scroll bar can also be added to let the user know how far down or up he/she can scroll.

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