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DipityToday I wanted to play some win game in linux using wine. It didnt work unless i changed color depth of screen. It takes me an idea to make profiles for the screen. for example - game, two monitors...
since they appeared, long time ago, they hold more or less the same features. Let's see two examples: Google-chrome, they improved it with the tab-bar and everyone loved it. UNR, they get rid of i...
I recently helped another user through the process of repairing a very broken system. In attempting to free up some space on /boot, he accidentally removed the packages for *all* of his kernel imag...
I can't sync between my Nokia cellphone and Ubuntu. I have to use the Nokia Suite on Windows XP at work to sync only "private data". At the moment, I send invites for some of my events to my PC a...
Ubuntu One is a great feature, with great future ahead. However, to make full use of it, user has to look for the applications that support synchronising instead of seeing them in one place. For ex...
Imagine you're writing an e-mail and you want to attach a file you have currently opened. How do you do that? [7 votes] Solution #1: Allow dragging documents from window list applet Allow to ...
I'm from a Windows background, and have recently migrated all my home computers across to Ubuntu with varying success. All bar one. the one yet to be done is my Windows Home Server. What it does...
Personally, I use both side scroll and two finger scroll. I use side scroll for long scrolls or when I need to scroll quickly (imprecise scrolling). I use two finger scroll generally when reading l...
It's annoying to have to manually search for an icon, when i manuall enter a command. For example i added vim to my panel (not by browsing, but by typing the command gvim in the input box "Command"...
Whenever a USB flash drive is ejected, safely removed or otherwise, instead of the USB file manager currently showing the contents on the USB closing down automatically, it goes to /media. I find t...
Evolution is now integrated with Ubuntu One, where the contacts are synced and stored on Ubuntu One. Many people use other email clients such as the very popular Thunderbird and as such don't have ...
After I used the Karmic beta, I liked the two-fingers scrolling and I'm still thinking if it can be implemented another gestures [100 votes] Solution #1: Implement gestures on notebooks' touchp...
It would be nice if you could tag the installed packages and applications, and later export package lists based on tags from the package manager. For example, if you use more than one computer fo...
I took the initiative to install netbook remix along side our Windows XP on our HP mini recently. I installed the 9.04 version of the UNR and realized that my audio didn't work. So knowing that t...
Ubuntu Workbench is a proposed add-on to the basic Ubuntu desktop to provide extensive features. Workbench's primary goal is providing a grid layout for items and objects on the desktop in a very ...
This is a feature that exists in Windows (and perhaps other OS). Simply double-clicking the application icon in the upper-left corner of a window should close it. This should be very easy to impl...
This is a feature that exists in Windows (and perhaps other OS). Simply double-clicking the application icon in the upper-left corner of a window should close it. This should be very easy to impl...
Well, the title is pretty much explicit. The only two Linux apps I was able to find by googling were Gimp and MTPaint. Gimp is not optimized for pixel-art, nor animation. For MT paint, I don't kn...
If you want to manage the content of your media player in applications like Banshee you either have to get it recognised as media player by default, or create own .is_audio_player file. Creating f...
Evince and Eog are two programs to view files. Their difference is small in terms of looks. Evince can already open many figure files, but doesn't have the "Next" and "Previous" options and the zo...
Evince and Eog are two programs to view files. Their difference is small in terms of looks. Evince can already open many figure files, but doesn't have the "Next" and "Previous" options and the zo...
The problem is software vendors don't like apt/yum, etc. and provide own installers. Giving some tools, like installer root privileges is a security hole! Many installers actually needs root privil...
The problem is software vendors don't like apt/yum, etc. and provide own installers. Giving some tools, like installer root privileges is a security hole! Many installers actually needs root privil...
Because netbooks are machines that are made for a very specific task that is quite different from 'normal' desktop use, there are several programs installed that 95% or even 100% of the users will...
Need for internet Scale OS or P2P OS or Auto Cluster OS. I am thinking simple usecase as below. I have 3 development system based on commodity hardware. I want ubuntu to access other ubunt...
Need for internet Scale OS or P2P OS or Auto Cluster OS. I am thinking simple usecase as below. I have 3 development system based on commodity hardware. I want ubuntu to access other ubunt...
When I first tried Xubuntu, I came across one problem in the GUI: You couldn't drag an item from the desktop, menus, etc. and make it become a panel. In fact, trying to drag something from the main...
Con Kolivas is back. (http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/09/06/0433209/Con-Kolivas-Returns-With-a-Desktop-Oriented-Linux-Scheduler). This means the quality of the default Linux scheduler is coming...
With the arrival of Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the look and feel of the desktop is very much dependent on the looks of the icons in it. In the standard Ubuntu icon pack, about 75% of the icons have a re...
Let's say we have a machine with 3 users on it. One of these users is working on GNOME. The other two are connected with SSH. Now, one of the user connected with SSH decide to shutdown the compu...
More and more people are accessing their desktops from remote computers, often over slow connections. It was nice if Ubuntu would take these issues into consideration, making it a good choice for t...
When you copy a folder from one location to another location with the 'same' folder name, you often get the dialog "A file named "" already exists. Do you want to replace it?". You get the option...
Now that Launchpad's code has been opened, I'd like to measure interest in having its support tracker ("Answers") service available in other languages. It is possible to submit questions to the su...
When using the "Connect to Server" dialogue within nautilus, there is no option to choose a mountpoint. When connecting, for example, to a network drive, it mounts inside the user's home directo...
I found Evolution the best mail client ever existed... but it lacks a Newsletter compositing option with Templates and examples... HTML support is quite well but it should have pre-designed Newslet...
When watching a slide show, it would be great to add the "play background song" option... the fading transition effect is well done and it only lacks this song option.... other thing is that I didn...
When watching a slide show, it would be great to add the "play background song" option... the fading transition effect is well done and it only lacks this song option.... other thing is that I didn...
Every application treats file size units in a different way so you never know the real size of a file or a drive. I.e. my USB device shows up as 4.1 GB when mounted on my desktop, but as 3.77 GB in...
When I add or remove icons from panel, the space left is still there. I have to "move" it to save the empty space. I like it automatically rearranges icon position to make a tidy panel [29 vote...
There is no option to turn off the password protection upon returning from suspend, though this can be done through manual system editing. [23 votes] Solution #1: Add an option under Power Mana...
While Ubuntu shutdown time isn't typically very long, the time may still matter when one needs to turn her laptop off to catch a bus, or reboot a system with strict availability requirements. [...
While Ubuntu shutdown time isn't typically very long, the time may still matter when one needs to turn her laptop off to catch a bus, or reboot a system with strict availability requirements. [...
Hi. I am the author of DockBar. This is taskbar like applet for Gnome desktop environment. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=97822 In the process of creation of DockBar I've found a ...
the commonly used compression tools gzip and bzip2 are single-threaded, however, parallel implementations of these algorithms exist, pigz as parallel implementation of gzip, pbzip2 for bzip2. it w...
Every time someone buys a computer off a store shelf and tries to install Linux(often Ubuntu) it can be a good experience, or not. A lot of the problems they experience could be predicted and answ...
Right now I have to deal with annoying settings in fstab to automount my second harddrive. Or I have to install some program to manage it. [37 votes] Solution #1: Right Click option I would...
I like to autohide my top gnome-panel, but when I go to close windows at the top of the screen I find it pops out inconveniently. It doesn't always happen, as I have increased the delay time (I kno...
A quick overview of the events and tasks (or even Memos) when you work with evolution is needed. [8 votes] Solution #1: Evolution right sidebar for events and tasks As in thunderbird with lig...
Gvfs is a great system - it gives easy acces to network shares, iso files, Bluetooth shares, etc. But the way it's currently offered to the user, you have to access it via e.g. smb://server/share (...
Nowdays the users have thousands files on their filesystem's. Exists toools like find/grep/locate/slocate & exists thing/api's like inotify/dnotify. Example, i remember that i want file which holds...
I decided to try the new alpha version of Ubuntu 9.10 recently. So I did a Google search for "ubuntu 9.10" and the top hits were alpha 1 and alpha 3, so I chose alpha 3 thinking it was the most rec...
When trying to find open networks, they are saved by default with the automatic connection option enabled in network manager. Open and closed network are saved. Later, after restarting, the network...
New users might not realise that an external disk (such as a USB drive) must be unmounted before it is removed. As Ubuntu does not remove the icon from the desktop, this has the potential to be con...
Hi, I have been using Ubuntu One for some days, and its great to have an online storage. Im using Windows XP on my work computer, i have an Apple iMac desktop computer running OSX and tree laptop...
As Kontact can do, Evolution should be able to print weeks in a grid, and not in a list. [14 votes] Solution #1: A new way of printing A new way of printing calendars in evolution, as a timet...
windows users who visit ubuntu.com are likely to be doing so for a reason: they're curious about how ubuntu compares to windows, how difficult a transition would be, is ubuntu actually better than ...
Outside internet access to internet users behind firewalls need more than one proxy sometimes. For example, a censured internet user behind Websense may need the local network proxy to access the ...
1) ubiquity in firefox provided a new, innovative and useful way to use the web, I want to use it in gnome too. 2) I use command line utility a lot, and hope to be able to use them directly on the...
For testing and debugging i'd like to record my user actions, to later replay them, like a macro. Not in a "presses a certain button" way like in for example Dogtail or Selenium, but in a "click on...
On Windows, the command "\\myserver\myshare" will jump to the myshare directory of the myserver computer. On Linux, I must use a bookmark and the syntax smb://xxxxx The "Run dialog" can handle the...
Ubuntu comes with a huge selection of games in Add/Remove Applications, but there they are all just dumped into the games category and can only be sorted by popularity. The icons are incredibly sm...
The update-manager can "show details" (command lines) by default : gconf-editor (Alt+F2) allows to have this preference (with "apps" menu), but this options doesn't exist when ubuntu is checking ...
Since it seems like people are using the same passwords half across the internets and maybe even their own computer. :( I would like to see a gnome applet that: 1. You use a master password. (One...
In the update manager, all you see is a menu with a scrollbar, with programs, a program number, and a very brief description. BORING. [33 votes] Solution #1: Make it better looking and more or...
After performing a search in gnome, it would be convenient to be able to right click a file on the Search results and select action "open containing folder". Example use case. Looking for a photos...
Downloading that rare torrent that you would like to see survive? Right now you've basically got two options: 1.) Keep everything in your download directory and enjoy the mess. 2.) Stop seeding y...
It would be nice if there was a little screen icon on the panel so you could quickly change resolutions. [-6 votes] Solution #1: Add a Screen Resolution applet to the panel Add a screen resol...
Sometimes in linux we have lots of packages for one thing and no packages for something else. It is my opinion, that these holes are holding linux back. In linux, we have translation packages for a...
When I do not have a mouse on my laptop, I definitely need the touchpad. Whereas, when I have a mouse device, I prefer to have the touchpad switched off (to prevent using it accidentally while typi...
An exemple: If I want to edit an SVG using Inkscape, I will most likely encounter this dialog: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4883/executable.png Why? Because the possibility to execute the fi...
When i install Ubuntu on laptop it not setup any of power management like for lid down, and LCD brightness when running on battery. [49 votes] Solution #1: Power modes I suggest that some p...
If a user wants to create a VPN connection, they will open the network manager and want to click the "Add" button. However, that button (and all the other buttons) are grayed out by default. What...
If a user wants to create a VPN connection, they will open the network manager and want to click the "Add" button. However, that button (and all the other buttons) are grayed out by default. What...
There is a well-known Project ToPaZ, a bunch of ideas on improving GNOME usability for 3.0 release (see http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/topaz/). Its menu is understandable even by beginners a...
When a known command is not installed. The shell return an error which looks like: The program 'wipe' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install wipe bash: wipe...
Currently, Google Earth is a great program, but it is the only program that can render KML files. Marble is a good Earth viewer, but has no support for KML. [26 votes] Solution #1: Lobby Google...
Currently, Google Earth is a great program, but it is the only program that can render KML files. Marble is a good Earth viewer, but has no support for KML. [19 votes] Solution #1: Lobby Google...
Currently, Google Earth is a great program, but it is the only program that can render KML files. Marble is a good Earth viewer, but has no support for KML. [32 votes] Solution #1: Lobby Google...
Update Manager Is not optimized for people with slow internet connection..For me it nearly takes 2 days to update a version of ubuntu from update manager. [148 votes] Solution #1: Add Pause and...
Update Manager Is not optimized for people with slow internet connection..For me it nearly takes 2 days to update a version of ubuntu from update manager. [109 votes] Solution #1: Add Pause and...
Update Manager Is not optimized for people with slow internet connection..For me it nearly takes 2 days to update a version of ubuntu from update manager. [64 votes] Solution #1: Add Pause and ...
If you uncheck "Enable Touchpad" in System>Preferences>Mouse>Touchpad and you don't know how to navigate with the keyboard so that you re-enable it, Ubuntu becomes impossible to use, with the excep...
I don't know who in the world would hit this combo accidentally. The keys are too distant between their selves and accidentally hits to this combo isn't an excuse to remove this. The combo were the...
I don't know who in the world would hit this combo accidentally. The keys are too distant between their selves and accidentally hits to this combo isn't an excuse to remove this. The combo were the...
When you don't need CD-R you got, what you do? [-79 votes] Solution #1: Free CD should be RW So when you don't need this version anymore you can burn new version on, or just use it for anythi...
When you don't need CD-R you got, what you do? [-85 votes] Solution #1: Free CD should be RW So when you don't need this version anymore you can burn new version on, or just use it for anythi...
When you don't need CD-R you got, what you do? [-64 votes] Solution #1: Free CD should be RW So when you don't need this version anymore you can burn new version on, or just use it for anythi...
In the image viewer Eye of GNOME, the file handling options are very limited. You can only Move to trash and copy (by using "Save as..." which is a bit non-obvious). I want to be able to have othe...
In the image viewer Eye of GNOME, the file handling options are very limited. You can only Move to trash and copy (by using "Save as..." which is a bit non-obvious). I want to be able to have othe...
The ubuntu-restricted-extras metapackage includes a JRE, Adobe Flash and various video/audio codecs, among other things. These components are not installed by default due to possible legal problems...
The ubuntu-restricted-extras metapackage includes a JRE, Adobe Flash and various video/audio codecs, among other things. These components are not installed by default due to possible legal problems...
Well ... a laptop with a default Ubuntu installation on battery lasts less than the same laptop under windows xp or vista. Even sometimes twice less. This is injustice. So a technical guy like me...
Well ... a laptop with a default Ubuntu installation on battery lasts less than the same laptop under windows xp or vista. Even sometimes twice less. This is injustice. So a technical guy like me...
Besides the 50%-400% zoom range options, Evince has two special zooming options: Fit Page Width and Best Fit. To me, the first one is very clear as to what it does, i.e., zoom the page so that the...
Besides the 50%-400% zoom range options, Evince has two special zooming options: Fit Page Width and Best Fit. To me, the first one is very clear as to what it does, i.e., zoom the page so that the...
What I am proposing is a Graphical User Interface for the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" process. The reason this is needed is in the case of a new Ubuntu user having to reconfigure/reset th...
What I am proposing is a Graphical User Interface for the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" process. The reason this is needed is in the case of a new Ubuntu user having to reconfigure/reset th...
We need a Good and Advanced GUI for download manager in Ubuntu, and can be used with linux browsers firefox , Konqueror, Chromeum...etc. They are the best alternative of IDM at fast download. See,...
The installation CD isn't doing anything while it's waiting for user input for questions like locale/name. This time could be used to speed up the installation. [5 votes] Solution #1: Preload t...
Some problems have multiple unrelated solutions, but only the entire set can go "in development". The result of this is that once one solution is being worked on, further solutions cannot be propos...
Currently, many of the services in a Debian installation are single mode. By "single mode", I mean they are always running daemons. There do are some (like exim), which are offered at install time,...
Although I do not know how technologically feasible this is, I would like to recommend an additional boot option for Ubuntu. Since individuals are increasingly using laptops instead of PDAs, it wou...
As a 'noob' myself the most frustrating thing about Ubuntu is finding things is still completely predicated on knowing its 'address' or being very organised. linux needs to leap ahead in terms of...
A restore default settings option for the GNOME desktop panels would be really useful if, for example have tried a few things with the panel and tweaked it and you just want it back to the way it c...
In the main Blufish menu "Projects > Latest opened", there is the list of all the recently opened projects. This list display projects like "/home/username/xxx/xxx/*.bfproject" [4 votes] Soluti...
In the course of using Linux, it's likely that people will need to copy + paste commands from the web into the shell. Adding a link in the context menu to do this with one click would be a huge boo...
Imagine you'd switch on your computer and the first thing you see is your wallpaper with a progress bar on it, the upsplash. Then followed by the GDM, using your wallpaper as a background as well a...
Right now you have to either drag the window to another workspace (only with compiz if I'm not mistaken) and then move back. This takes some time and multiple clicks. Alternatively you can right ...
gnome-system-monitor has a panel applet that displays graphs of things like CPU usage, network usage system load, RAM usage, and more. However, to see exact measurements (instead of just graphs) yo...
gnome-system-monitor has a panel applet that displays graphs of things like CPU usage, network usage system load, RAM usage, and more. However, to see exact measurements (instead of just graphs) yo...
During my day, I play Banshee audio of my local music collection. When a friend sends me a funny YouTube video to watch, I usually do the following: 1. Click the link (most of the time I don't rea...
Ubuntu Linux means that Ubuntu is some variant of the kernel Linux. The name Ubuntu Linux portrays some bad ideas. It removes the original meaning of the GNU project (software that provides freedom...
Ubuntu Linux means that Ubuntu is some variant of the kernel Linux. The name Ubuntu Linux portrays some bad ideas. It removes the original meaning of the GNU project (software that provides freedom...
Every time a user moves to another computer, after the typical installation, there is the problem to fill in personal files, applications, preferences, etc. There are two main issues in migrating...
Every time a user moves to another computer, after the typical installation, there is the problem to fill in personal files, applications, preferences, etc. There are two main issues in migrating...
Take a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-06-09#The%20GIMP It is not the first time that a completely ridiculous, non-sense, anti-usability and "coincidentally" pro-Mono ...
http://packages.ubuntu.com/ is a great search for packages. Many new users use the site the first time when they have problems. Some people whom I have recommended to use ubuntu, but his native la...
Trying karmic I've seen that it warns you about low disk space on any partition. The problem is that it uses a dialog window and you must press a key to get rid of it. The warning itself it's a goo...
Trying karmic I've seen that it warns you about low disk space on any partition. The problem is that it uses a dialog window and you must press a key to get rid of it. The warning itself it's a goo...
It is irritating to have to right-click and select 'Open in New Tab' in the Nautilus file browser. There is already the option to single click on the triangle/arrow to reveal the contents of a fol...
Adobe has a Creative Suite with a unified look and feel that is very easy to work with for people who daily work with the Adobe Creative Suite programs. Information about Adobe Creative Suite: htt...
oh, it would be SO nice if during installation you could enable file sharing and change your samba workgroup. it would save users time and let people know it is an opition they can control [18...
It is frustrating to set up keyboard settings, language settings, location etc.. [2 votes] Solution #1: Check your location with IP address It would be nice, if installer could check wan ip-a...
This would help to prevent a bad user experience (install 3.2 via repo, use it, find out its 3 years old, migrate to 3.5 manually) If eclipse will want to be in ubuntu they'll need to cooperate th...
Now, I'm an experienced Linus user, and I understand how to run a firewall. But Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro out there right now, and it's attracting more and more attention from the Win...
Now, I'm an experienced Linus user, and I understand how to run a firewall. But Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro out there right now, and it's attracting more and more attention from the Win...
Maybe sounds a bit crazy and titanic task but this is my idea. Soon the new Ubuntu One will be available with a free space of 2 gb for each user. Will be great integrate all your Ubuntu software ...
Setting up surround sound in PulseAudio is easy for novice and expert Linux users, they can just follow a tutorial like this one and be on their way: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795525...
Such an option could be the difference between a passing fancy and a platform switch for someone. [15 votes] Solution #1: Do it like Sun-- make an Ubuntu Learning on Demand service https://le...
Create an way to snapshot a complete running application (what it has in memory, what files its usings, its config, its state etc) to another computer. Package up all the info from RAM, filesystem ...
Not all of us were Ubuntu users from the first releases of the system. There are number of people trying to collect all versions of official distribution CD's, which is sort of challenging at this ...
With current Ubuntu desktop I'm able to change the background picture, but it gets unset as soon as I trash the original image file that I used for setting the background image. [10 votes] Solu...
It is always a good idea to update your packages when you are about to upgrade to a newer version. This simple piece of advice is repeated all the time but it is not good enough. People make mistak...
Windows Explorer has a feature that allows you to select the drive to copy or move to, sub-directory to copy to without having to change drives to copy and paste like in Linux Nautilus. I find it ...
Files in a VFAT file system should by default be mounted read-write only. At present files in a VFAT file systems are mounted with [r]ead-[w]rite-e[x]ecute permissions for the current user. In tech...
When a user tries to mount an encrypted device on the default Ubuntu setup he gets an error message saying that the cryptsetup binary is missing. There should be an easy way to install it. [25...
There are multiple help systems that exist as part of Ubuntu, yelp (the one that appears in the system menu), devhelp (which is somehow related to gnome development), dhelp, dwww, doc-central and s...
The Ubuntu Linux is a very good system, but, sometimes it's so boring, it appears dead, unhappy. So, why don't make it a little bit more crazy? The design can be modified, but, now the idea is to b...
If you install the NTP daemon (time server) the config file points to ntp.ubuntu.com (an obvious Ubuntu mod). While we are glad that Canonical maintains a time server for this purpose, it is not ...
Scenario: User wants an application that they installed to show up every time they log on. The user already knows that they can right-click the application launcher from the menu to copy it over ...
Very often I use the calculator for brief financial calculations and many of the times I need to either know a currency rate or the conversion rate, so each time I have to open my browser find them...
Currently, you can change the MythTV playback settings to adjust the x/y offsets and scale. This is great, particularly for sports that you record, because then you can scale and adjust the screen...
Currently, you can change the MythTV playback settings to adjust the x/y offsets and scale. This is great, particularly for sports that you record, because then you can scale and adjust the screen...
The developers of GNOME are thinking about changing their interface. They want to replace the current interface (top panel and bottom panel) with something they call GNOME Shell. This new interface...
Many people don't bother to run a personal firewall on their computers, because they know their entire network is protected by the firewall in their ADSL router. However, if they take their comput...
What level of accessibility does the Ubuntu Forum have? Is it difficult/impossible for users with a disability to actively participate in the forum? [11 votes] Solution #1: Perform WCAG2.0 chec...
Problem: The are so many different places to configure your different settings for internet/desktop applications such as Gmail/Facebook/Yahoo/Evolution, Twitter/AIM/Pidgin, Flikr/Picasa/F-spot, Las...
When I used a GOM player (http://www.gomlab.com), when you click on movie - it makes automatic playlist of all video files in a folder that you watch current movie, and when it finishes player s...
Take Jahshaka (the video editor) for exemple. It once was one of the best and most used video editor in the professional world. An open-source, linux software! And then? The project died near of 20...
