Popular Brainstorm Ideas
 

Hi All,

One of the facilities that has been hugely popular in the Ubuntu
community has been Ubuntu Brainstorm (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/).
With Brainstorm you can register ideas and features for the Ubuntu
project and others can vote those ideas up or down. There are also tools
in Brainstorm to indicate potential solutions or notes around the idea.
Brainstorm has become a great way to get an idea of what our users want.

As we build towards the 9.10 release cycle, I figured it would be useful
to present a summary of the most popular ideas of all time and the most
popular ideas within the last six months: thanks to Jorge for helping me
with this. This should offer some great food for thought for the wider
community to work on. Here goes...

## Most Popular Ever

These ideas are the most popular Brainstorm ideas that exist in the
system. They show a pretty strong sense of demand for which features
many Ubuntu users are craving.

### Fix suspend/hibernate

On 28 Feb 08 - 7053 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/94/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/jaunty-suspend-resume

### Speed up ubuntu/gnome boot time

On 28 Feb 08 - 6208 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/42/
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/BootPerformance
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/BootPerformance

### Easy mounting of images and ISO and CUE

On 28 Feb 08 - 5647 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/194/

### Clean up preferences and administration

On 28 Feb 08 - 5620 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/80/

### Improved file/folder sharing experience

On 29 Feb 08 - 5142 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/403/
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyFileSharing

### Fix compatability with webcams and microphone

On 28 Feb 08 - 5116 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/97/
* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam

### Enhanced Mobile Device Sync

On 28 Feb 08 - 4301 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ltsp-palm-devices
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/pim-device-sync
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/pocket-pc-support
*
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/pda-support-out-of-the-box
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/syncintegration

### Better wifi support

On 29 Feb 08 - 4273 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/295/

### Easy way of backing up/moving your documents and settings

On 28 Feb 08 - 3497 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/jaunty-backup

### Disk Manager by default

On 29 Feb 08 - 3167 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/323/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/disk-manager-by-default
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/fstab-gui

### Mouse button extension

On 28 Feb 08 - 3121 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/120/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/gui-mouse-configuration

### Better Hardware Profile Manager

On 16 Mar 08 - 2482 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4848/

### Better DVD support

On 29 Feb 08 - 2347 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/372/

### Better monitor support and configuration tools

On 29 Feb 08 - 2337 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/322/
* http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/9

### Professional looking boot loader

On 28 Feb 08 - 5859 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/plymouth

### Restoring the bootloader by Ubuntu installation CD

On 29 Feb 08 - 3740 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/

### Include a graphical frontend to edit `/boot/grub/menu.lst` installed
by default

On 28 Feb 08 - 2759 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/141/
* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/graphical-grub-config

Some recommended solutions (startupmanager is in universe):

* Start Up Manager - http://web.telia.com/~u88005282/sum/
* GRUBConf - http://grubconf.sourceforge.net/
* GRUBEd - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t#228104
* KGRUBEditor - http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content#75442

### Provide a simple interface for labeling partitions

On 3 May 08 - 2506 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8008/

### Make ubuntu more responsive (performance)

On 28 Feb 08 - 2316 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/85/

### GUI configuration front end for common services

On 28 Feb 08 - 1813 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/68/

## Most Popular over the last 6 months

These are the most popular ideas that have been registered in Brainstorm
in a recent cycle. Many of these ideas give a great impression of more
recent desires around functionality in Ubuntu.

### Check my hardware against application blackists BEFORE 'upgrading'

On 12 Jan 09 - 1653 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17218/

### Better life battery for laptop

On 3 Feb 09 - 646 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17825/

### Volume control should close when you click somewhere else

On 14 Feb 09 - 829 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18045/

### Redesign ubuntu for 2010

On 21 Jan 09 - 773 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17540/

### Allow ALT+Tab when drag and drop

On 4 Jan 09 - 753 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17042/

### "Scan wireless networks" option in NetworkManager

On 29 Jan 09 - 750 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17725/
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id#498887

### Easy screen-sharing and audio-chat for instant messengers

On 7 Jan 09 - 743 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17102/
*
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/replace-pidgin-with-empathy
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmpathyVsPidginUsability

### There should be a simple GUI to do basic disk maintanence tasks

On 30 Dec 08 - 723 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16919/
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit

### When abbreviating filenames, cut out the middle, keep the beginning
and end

On 19 Nov 08 - 720 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15752/

### Guest account needs a change

On 19 Nov 08 - 690 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15773/

### Make System Monitor as powerful as Windows Task Manager

On 24 Sep 08 - 682 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13626/

### "Speed up" Ubuntu by reducing duration of Compiz animations

On 3 Jan 09 - 664 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17009/

### Automatic handling of external monitor

On 20 Jan 09 - 647 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17509/

### ubuntu main menu icons are too big, they take too much space

On 30 Jan 09 - 594 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17748/

### Native Firefox on Ubuntu is even slower than on Wine

On 21 Jan 09 - 767 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/18058/
*
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_with_Profile-Guided_Optimization

### Synaptic/Apt-Get should check for free disk space before download or
install

On 15 Sep 08 - 669 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13235/

### Unify sound drivers and the sound api

On 22 Oct 08 - 661 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14682/

### Usplash should use a time-based progressbar

On 18 Nov 08 - 578 Votes

* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15741/

Something in this big 'ol list strike your fancy? Well, roll your
sleeves up and start making plans for the Karmic cycle. Lets see how
many of these features and problems we can fix. Start your engines
folks... :)

Thanks,

Jono

--
Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager
jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com
www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org




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