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Home folder sub-folders as targets would be nice.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Provide home folder targets
Provide the Ubuntu sub-folders of the home folder (Music / Documents / Videos) as targets.

[7 votes] Solution #2: Make it like Firefox's bookmarks
When you bookmark something in firefox, it lists the last 5 folders you placed bookmarks in before. Beside that is a little down-arrow that when clicked opens a sort of "save file" dialog so you can save it anywheres.

This would be really useful in nautilus.

[2 votes] Solution #3: Places folders as targets
Use folders from Places menu instead.

After a clean installation of Ubuntu 10.04 a restricted drivers icon appeared in the system tray, with no information about what it was before clicking it.

[13 votes] Solution #1: Popup + tooltip on hover
A pop-up to draw attention to the icon and a tool-tip when hovering over it ("Restricted drivers are available, please click for more information") would be descriptive.

I think that more than 2 panels its useful and practic.
Like the terminator multi-view

[-4 votes] Solution #1: Iterative adds with F3 keypress
Adds the tittle idea to the next version of nautilus.
Add views with F3 clicks and have another key to restore the default view for example F9.
2 panels when you're moving diferents files to diferent folders(films,games,webs...) sometimes isnt comfortable in graphical mode.

As a user i would like to have an opportunity to _simply_ pass accounts created on one computer to other computers in house (ex. through interface like for Remote Connection [The popup when somebody want's to connect]). This way managing pictures, movies and other stuff could get easier across multiple PCs.

Example:
Amy shares her account details with Adams and then Adam can allow Amy's account access to specific directory/ies on the system through SSH connection.

[3 votes] Solution #1: Advanced control lists for multiple user access control
The multiple access roles could be achieved through ACL https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acl

Some programs / plugins add items to nautilus context menu. If item text is long, then menu becomes very ugly

See screenshot
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9544/nautilusmenu.png

[-6 votes] Solution #1: Autocut long items and animate sliding text when mouseover
two steps:

1. Really long items should be cutted automatically

2. If item text is really significant (like in example), it should be automatically slided from left to right, when mouse over.

May be, this solution can be applied to other areas too. Don't know. My use-case is for "diff-ext" extention for meld. Use it often for development.

[14 votes] Solution #2: Send a bug report to the plugin project
everything is in the title

I very much liked the ability of Banshee to autocreate the folder for the new songs/album added, but with Rhythmbox I have to create the artist folder, create the folder for the album, paste the music file and add it to Rhythmbox library.

[8 votes] Solution #1: Autocreate appropriate folders
Have Rhythmbox autocreate the folder hierarchy (as specified in the Library Structure setting) when importing a music file.

I have several email accounts and so several evolution mail account folders in the left panel. As they have many subfolders, I collapse the folder tree of the not often used mail folders.
When a new email is downloaded/synced to an evolution folder that is collapsed, there is no sign to find out which one mail folder received new email. The title of the subfolders (like Inbox) would turn bold, so you know that there is a unread or new mail, but not with the account folder.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Indicator for new email in an evolution mail account folder
It would be great to have a indicator (star, name in bold letters, ...) that a new email has arrived in a evolution mail folder (see thunderbird).
(Please ask if this description is not clear enough!?

It happens often that you try to launch an application, then wait a few seconds, only for nothing to happen. To find out why your application doesn't start, you have to launch it from the command line.

[6 votes] Solution #1: Provide dialog with info when application fails to start
When an application fails to start, bring up a dialog saying: "[Application Name] failed to start" (perhaps with a return code), with a "More Detail" button. When you click "More Detail", it should show you, in the dialog, the standard output of the application.

[4 votes] Solution #2: Add option to "restart application" and "restart with error reporting"
I propose adding 2 options to the dialog (in addition to the close/etc button).

"Restart Application" would simply restart the application.

"Restart With Error Reporting" would capture the stdout and stderr from the application and generate an "error report" that could be read (for experienced users) or copy/pasted to a new bug report for the application.

Right now, Nautilus's interface (namely the Main Toolbar) has a lot of clutter-making buttons, removing valuable screen space for actually viewing the files (the things you are actually using Nautilus to view)

[2 votes] Solution #1: Move the essential buttons out of the Main Toolbar
Move the essential buttons onto what is right now the Location Bar, leaving only extra buttons on the "Main" Toolbar that could be hidden and remove clutter.
This would also may call for renaming the Main Toolbar to just the Toolbar has it is no longer housing essential buttons.

A mockup I made:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oieP26zeTBmNbfNh7uimNg?feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u4BndmB5UCZSKOqLDwQCbA?feat=directlink

[-1 votes] Solution #2: Same as #1 but move buttons to the left
all in the title (like nautilus-elementary)

When I try to move a folder from one parent folder to another parent folder "and there's already a folder of the same name in the target folder, Nautilus prompts me: Cancel or Merge?

When re-naming a folder, though, if there's already a folder in that parent folder with the same name, the only option is "No."

I recently re-structured my Music folder, and merging saved me a ton of time. However, I had to move "Foo & Bar" to the desktop, rename it "Foo and Bar" there, and them move it back to ~/Music to merge it with the existing "Foo and Bar" folder. If renaming would prompt "Cancel or Merge?" the way moving does, things would have gone much more smoothly.

[41 votes] Solution #1: Cause renaming to promt to merge or cancel in case of conflict
Give the user the opportunity to merge two folders in a given parent folder by attempting to rename one of them to the name of the other, just as it works now with copying and moving.

[-9 votes] Solution #2: Alt+Drag first folder to the second folder
When dragging a folder with the Alt-Button pressed and dropping it over another folder, there should also be an option to merge the two folders.

[-12 votes] Solution #3: Select folders and press (for example) Ctrl+J
You should be able to select two or more folders and press some key combination like Ctrl+J. A dialog should appear where you can select the name of one of those folder or define a new one.

You have the same on MacOSX: There is an "open" command you can use in your shell and it will open a file with the system default application.

On Linux/Unix, it is quite similar to what xdg-open does.

For people who don't know about xdg-open and/or who are familiar with MacOSX and/or who want the shell to behave more natural, it would be nice to have the command "open" just behave this way.

[13 votes] Solution #1: open should be an alias to xdg-open
Currently, open is a symlink to openvt which executes a command on another virtual terminal. I think, this is a bad idea because it is not very natural. This symlink should be changed instead to xdg-open.

I have filled in a bug report about it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/619913


[1 votes] Solution #2: Remove /bin/open and create /usr/bin/open -> /usr/bin/xdg-open
Remove /bin/open, and create /usr/bin/open to link to /usr/bin/xdg-open.

Many Ubuntu users find that they are the only user on their laptop/desktop. They rarely, if at all have to sign in as another user.

Give the user the user a secure way to get to an up and running desktop without clicking on anything. In other words, hit the power button, make your morning tea, type your password and you are staring at an up and running desktop read for your day. The login settings screen allows you to select an auto login after x seconds, but your computer is not secure when it loads up if you are away from your desk. others can access you desktop and apps.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Login Settings option to boot to screensaver
Give the user an option in the administration>login settings menu to have the computer auto login and then load straight to the screensaver. All your always-on and start at boot apps will be coming up and will get running such as social clients and email, all behind a nice safe screen saver. You come back to your desk, enter your password and you are looking at a desktop that is ready to rock and roll. Perhaps there is a way to do this now if you are really good around the terminal, but I for one am not that good. New users are looking for the experience, not looking to google tips and secrets online.

[3 votes] Solution #2: Add a 'default selected user' option
so that people can have their lazy hands satisfied. Then they don't have to click. 5 seconds to a desktop on a 5 year old machine is not too long...

In English, "File" and "FiLe" are the same word, however, Ubuntu/Linux which treats the file as 2 separate words. If someone renames a file named "Grade11.doc" to "grade11.doc, recent item links and programs are broken, and for some files, configs may break.

Furthermore in console/bash, one not only needs to know the filename they want, but also whether it is capitalised to access it. Why should they? It makes life difficult, especially in your home directory.

No person in their right mind would keep a file named Grade.doc, and grade.doc in the same directory anyway.

[-18 votes] Solution #1: Case Insensitive Filesystem
Introducing filesystem case-insensitivity (for optional use) solves this problem. Case insensitivity means that Grade11.doc and grade11.doc are the same file, and you can access the file using either. However, it still allows you to capitalise files as you wish. Users don't expect file1.doc and File1.doc to be 2 separate files, and even elite users rarely need case sensitivity (it just annoys them in bash).

OSX (based on BSD) and Windows already do this, and it works extremely well. In fact, OSX allows their filesystem case type to be selected during format (accommodating all users needs, because those who need a case-sensitive filesystem can still do so).



[-4 votes] Solution #2: Preserve Legacy Features by...
Adding an option to recover from file lookup errors.

On error:
use glibs case-insensitive string compare to resolve spelling errors.

There are already some clunky terminal work arounds.. like

(move to a home directory with the letters "des in it")
cd ~; dir=`ls | grep -i "des"` ; cd $dir ; unset $dir

Security problems....
an if two executables are in a directory with similar name, one is compromised, the other not; a spelling mismatch could cause the execution of the wrong executable. So ambiguous execution paths must fail.

[8 votes] Solution #3: set completion-ignore-case on
By adding "set completion-ignore-case on" to ~/.inputrc bash's autocomplete will be case-insensitive.

As for open/close dialogs and file managers, that is very easy to do at the application level (90% of filemanagers already do it and QT/GTK can probably do it for open/save dialogs).

The idea is simple... the whole reason I use nautilus is because I'm being too lazy to pull out a terminal because I don't want to move my hands over to my keyboard. So instead of moving over to the keyboard to press control H, I generally go to view and show hidden files when I want to see hidden files. This works fine, but the Show Hidden Files is like midway down and takes some effort to make sure you're clicking the right thing. Call me lazy, but any increase in efficiency is a bonus on a project.

[-12 votes] Solution #1: Double-click Nautilus whitespace to toggle hidden file display
I think it would be neat to be able to double click in the whitespace between folders in nautilus to toggle showing hidden files. It's quick, it's easy, and it's not that hard to implement. I think it would be a simple, crisp feature that would add to the overall appeal of the project.

[-3 votes] Solution #2: A quick button on the toolbar to toggle hidden file visibilty
Just click the button to show/hide the files. it would be on the Main Toolbar

[2 votes] Solution #3: an option to permanantly show hidden files/folders
Hidden files are hidden to keep N00Bs and non-techies from messing with them and breaking their system accidentally. However I have not found a permanent 'show hidden files/folders', so this would be appreciated for those who KNOW what they can break by messing with them.

[2 votes] Solution #4: An option for double-click in behaviors tab of preferences
Hidden files on double-clicking could confuse new users, so why not have an option on the behavior tab of preferences for this or for adding a toolbar button to toggle show/hide hidden files.

I'm posting this referring to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/549521

Although completion [pressing TAB after a few letters brings up the whole file/pathname in terminal] is integrated for quite a bunch of stuff, I've discovered a different behavior for the last versions of Ubuntu. For example, the use of TAB will complete sudo but not the commands following the sudo command.
This is annoying like hell, because most of the time I use the terminal, I've got to use the sudo command.

The old way was easy, safe (because you avoid typos or see them pretty fast), and quick.

I don't know why it changed from the old behavior, where even available packages after "sudo apt-get install" were shown after the first letters of the packages + TAB.

As discussed in the bugreport I've mentioned above, this seems not to be a bug but a thing Ubuntu leaves for the user to decide. You can reenable the bash autocompletion behavior before Lucid like mentioned here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/477753.

I wonder, why this great feature should be an opt-in, since it brings so much functionality to the terminal, and people new to ubuntu and the shell may not even know this function can be extended for the sudo command as well.


[35 votes] Solution #1: Make the bash completion behavior pre-10.04 the standard again
Title stands for itself pretty much. This will give you:
[sudo apt-g] + [TAB] = sudo apt-get;
[sudo apt-get insta] + [TAB] = sudo apt-get install;
[sudo apt-get install nau] + [TAB] = sudo apt-get install nautilus
Here is the solution: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/477753

When opening/uploading an image, the thumbnail is too small to see.

[-5 votes] Solution #1: Create an image preview in Nautilus
An image previewer in the nautilus browser would allow a picture to be seen in a normal size.

[3 votes] Solution #2: Create an image preview plugin
it must b optional plugin or at least turnoffable feature

Currently, the only way to mount drives to a specific location in the file system is a confusing process involving the terminal.

I think many users would appreciate a user-friendly GUI tool to do this.

[-4 votes] Solution #1: Simple GUI Tool
A simple, user-friendly tool that allows the user to pick a drive that is already mounted, then tell it where to mount inside the file system. Then the drive remounts in its new location and the settings to mount there are saved.

[17 votes] Solution #2: Nautilus Tool
A tool inside of Nautilus. Users right-click on the drive in question, and the process is the same as #1.

[4 votes] Solution #3: Add package support for fwstab
There's already a pretty good tool for automating fstab, unfortunately it's only packaged for RPM distributions.

screenshot
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/sites/default/files/screenshots/fwfstab/fwfstab.png

homepage
http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwfstab


[0 votes] Solution #4: Do it with palimpset
Make palimpset able to specify the mount point when mounting a device

Whenever you're on a website and you click on a link to an email adress (e.g. info@companyofyourchoice.com), the EVOLUTION SETUP ASSISTANT automatically opens. If you're like me and don't want to use it, you close that "evolution setup assistant" window, right-click the link, copy the adress to hotmail and then write the message. Perhaps the action performed when you click an email link could be different.

[7 votes] Solution #1: Give different options.
A different window could appear (hopefully faster than the "evolution setup assistant" window does).

It could offer 3 options:

1- to open Hotmail, Gmail... you name it.
2- to configure Evolution
3- to copy the email adress (so you can paste it later on)

If you choose option 1, you could be asked if you want to automatically perform this action next time.

[11 votes] Solution #2: Be redirected to "prefered applications"
The first time you click an email adress, you would be redirected to "prefered applications" where you can change the default email reader. You could then select Hotmail, Gmail or Evolution Mail Reader.

It should be quite good, if in a future Software Center release near description of a paid software (Nero, for example), provide some links to the free analogs (Brasero, k3b), that can be installed from the same Software Center.

[1 votes] Solution #1: Add the bar
Simply add in the bottom of the page, that displayed description of app, a bar, that will be displayed a list of free analogs.

I am a photographer and upload a lot of photos online. Both to Facebook and flickr. But these sites although great for sharing photos with the world are not ideal backup solutions.

I love Ubuntu One and try to utilize it as much as possible but frankly I am more than a little lazy. So I more often than not don't back up to U1.

The same can also be said about my document uploads to Zoho and class projects.

[-11 votes] Solution #1: Copy to Ubuntu One on Upload
The idea here is whenever a user uploads a file Ubuntu should automatically copy it to the Ubuntu One folder. This would best be implemented through a browser extension.

Although the idea and basic implementation are simple there are issues that must be considered. These include size, bandwidth and privacy issues. As such the user may not want to copy every single thing they upload to Ubuntu One. But having a popup come up every time something is uploaded is intrusive and annoying.

These issues could be combated through:
-A strong settings framework
-Zeitgeist integration
-In browser dialogues (see the new "save your password/settings?" dialogues in Chrome/Firefox)

[-2 votes] Solution #2: make a plugin for f-spot and other photo management
another way to reach the same goal, is to make some plugins in f-spot and other photos management programs to backup your photos.
Two or three clicks and you've saved your collection.