{"id":1998,"date":"2010-03-13T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2010-03-13T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T21:19:55","slug":"ten-brainstorm-ideas-i-wish-more-people-would-vote-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/ten-brainstorm-ideas-i-wish-more-people-would-vote-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Brainstorm ideas I wish more people would vote up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubuntu Brainstorm<\/a> is a mess. There are literally tens of thousands of ideas posted up there. How can you make any sense of it? Well, you can’t. I thought I’d just draw some attention to some ideas I think are worthwhile in the hopes that people will vote them up or at least discuss them. <\/p>\n

Here’s my top ten along with quick blurbs as to why they’re important: <\/p>\n

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Not everyone has broadband internet access at home. So-called “Linux for Human Beings” should focus on accessibility. <\/p>\n

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One good SVG takes up less disk space than seven PNGs of various sizes, and it also looks great no matter how big you make it. <\/p>\n

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I don’t think this requires a justification. I’m using the latest Ubuntu 10.04 alpha, and the problem still requires a workaround (deleting and recreating the keyring password with “unsafe storage”). <\/p>\n

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Why ask a user to paste a command into the terminal when the program could just run the command by itself? <\/p>\n

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Privacy should be the default with sharing as an opt-in. <\/p>\n

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Why give new users the option through the GUI to accidentally remove admin<\/i> access? <\/p>\n

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For the last time: if hiding asterisks or dots is “a security feature,” then you should be voting up Idea #11136: Remove visual feedback from GUI password dialogues<\/a>. If it isn’t a security feature, though, then you should vote this up so as not to confuse users who are expecting visual feedback when they type passwords. This happens a lot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Lots of widescreen monitors out these days. Why waste vertical screen space with a second panel? A lot of people seem to think moving the window buttons from right to left is no big deal, so why would it be a big deal to just remove one Gnome panel by default. And the defaults-don’t-matter crowd (which I am not a part of<\/a>) can just add it back with a few clicks. <\/p>\n

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I take a lot of screenshots for tutorials. I know a lot of others folks do too. It’d be great if gnome-screenshot<\/i> didn’t keep prompting for a file name. Just create the file… or allow an easy preference option to do so. <\/p>\n

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I understand why Ubuntu doesn’t include various codecs and software by default in Ubuntu, but apart from pasting in cryptic code<\/a>, new users don’t have an easy way to access the Medibuntu repositories. It’d be great if they could check just one more box (as they can with the Partner repositories).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a mess. There are literally tens of thousands of ideas posted up there. How can you make any sense of it? Well, you can’t. I thought I’d just draw some attention to some ideas I think are worthwhile in the hopes that people will vote them up or at least discuss them.… Continue reading Ten Brainstorm ideas I wish more people would vote up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[589,919],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brainstorm","tag-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}