Currently the only way to create links to other Brainstorm Ideas is to manually create "a href=" HTML tags. This is tedious.

It has come to my attention ( so called blockers can be found at http://pastebin.com/m39042b41 ) that there are plans to move from Rhythmbox to Banshee in either "Karmic Koala" or "Lame Llama"

Let me show strong opposition. Regardless of the arguable yet significant issues both legal and practical with the mere inclusion of Mono apps in the default (I personally think the best path is to get rid of these apps from the default, not to add more) There's also another issue... I like Rhythmbox .

It is not just for technical issues such as "Banshee uses twice as much memory as Rhythmbox" It is also because of the cleaner interface and that in many ways it follows the ubuntu philosophy much better. Regardless, I do not think I a am alone, as noticeable in Idea #18932 There's strong opposition to switching from this app. Instead, what the community wants is that ubuntu sticks to rhythmbox and keep improving it.

It is a little frightening that these decisions are being taken out of artificial advantages such as theorically saving 6.1 MB, The Mono runtime itself adds to much heavier space requirements than Rhythmbox.

PS: What's the message Canonical would be giving to the world if we need MS technology even for basic apps such as music libraries? I mean, really...

On the 'My Dashboard' in Brainstorm a best solution contributor ranking is provided under the 'My global stats' heading. I know personally seeing my ranking rise encourages me to contribute more and better solutions.

But how is my ranking changing over time? How far behind am I to the contributor ranked just above me? What about the contributor just behind me, are they catching up?

A single figure is unable to answer these questions.

Search in Ubuntu is broken or nearly useless in most places.

1. Fix Tracker quirks: http://s4.tinypic.com/awq1s2.jpg
2. Make Nautilus search faster.
3. Show search results as you type
4. Option to search by file name only (and/or content)
5. Rank files by relevancy. Relevancy is composed of:
- Number of matching query terms
- Date (files: last accessed, emails: date received, etc)
- Location of file (e.g. ~/ vs /usr vs .gnome2/)
- etc
6. Integrate Tracker tagging into Nautilus (Expand the status bar to display additional context sensitive info for selected file, including a field to add/edit tracker tags).
7. Support regular expressions in searches for advanced users
8. Support keywords in searches a la google (e.g. "journey filetype:mp3", "*.mp3 rating:>3", etc)
9. Support wildcards: * + - | & and or not
10. Saved search folders.

All of the above should be exposed to applications as well. For example, searching in Evolution would find emails as you type, allow wildcards, regex, keywords (e.g. "subject='[Bug*'"), etc.

Feel free to suggest other fixes for various search deficiencies in Ubuntu and I'll add them to this idea.

Hello,
I am a student of Masters in Computer Science.I am doing my thesis on "Usability of Open Source Software", as a part of my thesis i want do usability testing on Ubuntu desktop version and dig out the usability bugs and solutions.

Please give some specific guide line.

Thanks in advance.

Zahidul Alam

Video is a good medium to get ideas across with, this is something Brainstorm is currently lacking.