Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly-ish summary of some of the best brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. In the beginning it may not always come exactly once a week or on the same day, but, if it becomes popular, it should become more regular.
Today Brainstorm implemented an idea I wrote about last week, creating a blog to go along with the main site. Last week I said that “The idea behind Ubuntu Brainstorm is to get ideas and suggestions from Ubuntu users, but in order to expect feedback from users, developers must show how they are using that feedback.” Now, the first introductory post on the new blog says “But we understand brainstorming is not an one-way process: it is our duty to give you some feedback on the ideas you proposed. That will be the goal of this blog.” As you might guess, I am very happy about this new addition. Check it out here.
With videos being incredibly popular on the web and Ubuntu having tons of cool visual effects though Compiz Fusion, it makes a lot of sense to create an official Ubuntu promotion video.
Currently, if you want to create a custom theme for your desktop, you have to pick out individual pieces. This makes it so hard to create an appealing new theme for your desktop. Letting you just download one package would make it so much easier.
Open-source is about users contributing back, but far too often even users that want to help out don’t know how. Ubuntu needs an easy way for new helpers to figure out what they should do.
It is far too easy to accidentally quit out of X (essentially giving you a full screen terminal), which would leave a new user completely confused. It is essential that there are instructions on how to get back into the GUI.
I don’t know what the title is supposed to mean, but the idea here is to add links to various useful sites for new Ubuntu users to the desktop. I think this is a great idea, because the desktop is what the user first sees and so it is the most easily accessibly place for help. Once the user is more familiar with Ubuntu, he/she can delete those links.
One of the most annoying things about installing Windows is that it keeps stopping the process to ask you more questions. This basically forces you to sit there the whole time, unless you want the process to take a whole day. I have never had this problem with Ubuntu, but I certainly don’t want to start having it.
Ubuntu Brainstorm is one of the best ways for Ubuntu users to get themselves heard. It would be so simple to put a link to it on the front page of the Ubuntu site and it would give so many more people a voice.
