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

For a lot of people, the desktop is the computer equivalent of their inbox. That means that it eternally needs cleaning. Unfortunately, like cleaning out your inbox, cleaning and/or organizing your desktop is quite difficult. Furthermore, there are different types of stuff you keep on your desktop. There are files, folders, shortcuts to applications, drives, and more. An easy way to keep track of all this stuff would be an incredibly valuable tool.

With the rise in web video and web TV through sites like Hulu, more and more people are experiencing the pain of disabling your screensaver every time you want to sit back and watch a longer video. Having your screensaver disabled whenever you are watching video, even if the video comes from YouTube or Hulu, would be incredible.

While most people don’t bother, there are a lot of people who use external monitors, especially with netbooks and laptops. For these people, it would be a great feature for Ubuntu to correctly and easily detect and configure external monitors.

One of Linux’s strong points is customization, but, at this point, the options are scattered all over the place in GNOME utilities, third party utilities, and configuration files. It would be much better to have one interface for managing themes, with the option to go to a lower level and change every detail.

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