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

Media with DRM (Digital Rights Management) from a source such as iTunes is unlikely to play in other media players, on Linux or on any OS, so to avoid confusion and promote DRM-free media, it would be a good idea to put a small warning next to DRMed media.
Whatever you think about Windows, a lot of people know to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE when something freezes. Just making this shortcut open up GNOME System Monitor (or an equivalent application for KDE), would make a lot of new users more comfortable.
Sometimes it is necessary to modify files outside of your home folder. Often, you currently have to do this from the terminal, or at least change permission from the terminal such that you can modify files from nautilus. It would be much better if you could press a button, enter a password, and have an instance of nautilus with root permissions (essentially the result of “sudo nautilus”.)
Normally, I would be against including a piece of beta or RC software in a final release, but OpenOffice 3.0 introduces a very important feature – support for Microsoft’s new formats. For that one feature alone, I think it would be a mistake to delay OpenOffice 3 for another 6 months.
A place like labs.ubuntu.com would let everyone see the cool and innovative projects going on that might become part of a future release. This would help everyone see the future of Ubuntu.
Suppose a newbie was trying to figure out how to install some piece of software. They might find malicious instructions that told them how to add a malicious repository and, thus, the newbie might accidentally get a piece of malware instead of the program they were looking for. If, though, when they went to add the repo, they were warned that that repo was know to be malicious, they might go look for better instructions.

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