Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site as well as various other Brainstorm-style sites.

With the abundance of flash drives and other removable media, it’s easy to forget how much space you have left on your flash drive. It would be useful to be able to see the percentage of free and used space from Nautilus. This could be implemented with a simple bar above the icon for a drive in Nautilus.

There is no doubt that all of the Brainstorm moderators are working as hard as they can, yet some duplicates and other ideas that should have been filtered out make it through. It would be good to have very explicit rules about what gets approved and what doesn’t. It would also be good for moderators to be able to vote against ideas in the Sandbox, so ideas that shouldn’t be approved don’t get approved.

The archiving program in Ubuntu supports a lot of formats but not nearly all of the many compression formats. Just like what happens when you try to play an unsupported media file, you should be prompted to install the correct unarchiver to open the archive.

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