Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly-ish summary of some of the best brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. In the beginning it may not always come exactly once a week or on the same day, but, if it becomes popular, it should become more regular.

This week I started using the bookmarking system built in to Brainstorm instead of opening each idea in a tab and it seems to work quite well. I submitted an idea to include tags for bookmarks, to which I received a response from a Brainstorm admin that they are working on tags already!

There are already tons of great user-created videos promoting Ubuntu. With a contest, even more people would be inspired to create great videos that promote Ubuntu.

Although the implementation would have to be carefully figured out, the basic idea, improving copy and paste with lists or stacks, is great.

As long as most of the desktop is already animated, why not make more stuff look cool? Seriously, especially if there are a lot of icons on your desktops, making the new ones glow could be very useful.

Add/Remove is arguably one of the things that differentiates Ubuntu from other distros and other OSs, so making it better should be a top priority.

For those of us who want to know what each update does, but don’t want to have to sort through highly technical gibberish, it would be nice to have, possibly in addition, a short one or two sentence description of what an update does.

Imagine clicking on your Applications menu and dragging Firefox to the top as all the other apps glide down to make room for it. If that sounds cool, you should support this idea.

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