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

Many mice now have six or more buttons plus a mouse wheel. While many people just use the left and right mouse button, being able to take advantage of every button on the mouse can be quite useful. Many mouse manufacturers ship a custom utility for setting up the functions of each button, but it would be great to be able to configure mouse buttons from the built in mouse utility.

Your desktop serves a number of purposes. In addition to displaying an image, it holds application shortcuts, files, and shortcuts to removable media. The problem is that these types of icons mix together, even though they are not related. It would be great to be able to define default locations for each type of icon.

A lot of Linux users dual-boot their machines, either to run multiple Linux distros or to have access to Windows when they need it. The current process for switching between operating systems is to restart and then choose the correct operating system, but it would be much easier if you could choose the operating system to boot in to before you restart your computer.

Rather than having the Disk Usage Analyzer utility as a stand alone tool, it would be great to integrate it in to Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, so that you can see what is using up sapce in a particularly directory and view files in directories that seem to be hogging space.

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