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

In the same way that VLC is praised for being capable of opening virtually any media file, it would be great to have an equivalent viewer for documents and photos. Essentially, this would be an extension to Evince that would allow it to open (for viewing only) almost any text document, spreadsheet, or photo.

Many many Ubuntu installs are done over top or beside Windows installations. In these cases, it would be a huge convenience to be able to easily import your files from Windows. The possible implementations for this vary, my favorites being creating an image file with My Documents folders and any other important files, but, regardless, it would be a very useful feature for many switchers.

Certain types of files have different types of actions associated with them. For example a photo can be viewed or edited, which often requires different applications. In cases like this, it makes sense to have two applications associated with a particular file type, one for viewing and one for editing.

Many people use USB flash drives to carry certain documents around. One of the risks of this, though, is that the flash drive can be lost or broken, losing hours of work. A great solution is to sync your flash drive with your computer, but, at this point, that requires additional software that is not installed by default.

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