Brilliant Brainstorms is a weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site.
While you can already carry around a USB drive installed with an entire Linux distro, including applications, system files, and your documents, it would make a lot more sense to let users create a USB drive with just their settings and files so that they could take the drive to any other Ubuntu PC and have their own environment.
It is quite easy to hit the shutdown button without remembering to save a file or something like that, so it is very important that this sort of situation is handled well by the OS. In addition to the suggestions in this idea, I would also favor having a countdown where the computer will shutdown automatically after the countdown, or you can press “shut down” or “cancel” to immediately shut down or cancel the shutdown.
The reality is that it is very hard to impossible to please everyone with one color scheme, so no matter what Ubuntu does with its default color scheme, people will still complain. A good solution, though, would be to include multiple themes with different looks and colors.
Right now file archives act very static and almost read-only. It would be much more natural if they acted like regular folders.
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Also, if all you want to say is something like "Linux sucks. Get real," please don't say it. It doesn't help anything. (Plus, you're wrong. :-))
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Agree on #3… they could also delete some fugly ones, since the “delete” button doesn’t work on default ones.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
(it’s probably because of root privs or something, but to the casual user, that button will pretty much never work)