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

We can easily solve all the requests for various pieces of information on the login page by allowing users to put their own widgets on the login page. (Disclaimer: I submitted this idea.)

No one likes it when their screensaver pops up in the middle of trying to watch a movie or any similar activity. Luckily, there is a simple solution to this: allow the user to disable the screensaver when certain applications are running.

Being able to actually kill processes is great, but sometimes it would be nice to kill applications without knowing what their process name is. The solution would be something like the Windows Task Manager, except that it would work without having to go to the processes tab.

There are only a few things more frustrating than discovering something messed with your boot loader without your permission. If this happens to you, you either have to reinstall or go through the process of fixing things. Reinstalling is a pain, so fixing it should be easy – right off the live CD.

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