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.
The current Ubuntu homepage looks far too static and shows off very little of what Ubuntu can do and what Ubuntu is. A new homepage with news, applications, and links to the many various Ubuntu sites would both be more useful and helpful in promoting Ubuntu. It is important that the homepage remain professional, though.
Anyone that has attempted to use Gnash, the free Flash Player alternative, will know that is does not work for everything, but it does work for some sites. If you have to choose between one or the other, you are basically forced to use Flash Player, but if you could easily switch between the two, you could use Gnash whenever possible.
The Fedora team put a big push into not just with the boot screen but with the entire boot experience to make it look more professional and less confusing to new users. Although it may seem like a small thing, small things do matter, so it would be much better if Ubuntu too eliminated text screens at bootup.
Although this idea may be very difficult or impossible to implement in practice, part of the idea of brainstorming is to come up with lots of ideas, possible or not. Sometimes there is simply not a .deb file for a piece of software and if newbies (and anyone wanting to save time) were able to simply click on a source package and have it install, it would be great.
In the past, the configuration for Compiz Fusion was always amazingly complicated, but now that there is a much simpler configuration tool, Simple CCSM, it should be included.
There are really two reasons to use the cube desktop effect instead of the wall effect. First, the cube is the one that is demonstrated more often, and therefore people are more likely to be familiar with. Second, even though Linux had it first, the wall could be thought of as a Mac rip-off by someone who was unfamiliar with Linux.
