Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.

Not All Good

A lot of distros already let you choose what applications you install, and it is annoying! Even if it were hidden under an advanced button, it could still confuse users.

Really Brilliant

Having error messages for anything that goes wrong – from not recognizing a printer to a program crashing – would help make new users more comfortable and less confused. This would be even better if the errors made sense to the user.

For those of us who like to be on the absolute bleeding edge testing new tweaks and stuff and, potentially, for newbies who follow some bad instructions, it would be nice to have a program that can automatically fix some configuration errors.

A few companies are already working on letting you control your computer with your hand, and there are even a couple products, but Linux still has a chance to take the lead with intuitive and useful gestures.

While I know almost nothing about the Ubuntu login process, it would seem that, particularly on a one user system, it would be possibly to load GNOME/KDE/any other desktop environment while waiting for the user to login, speeding up log-in times.

If you are waiting for updates to finish or some other task to finish, you should be able to hit shutdown, leave your computer, and know that your computer will turn off as soon as those tasks have completed.