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One of the facilities that has been hugely popular in the Ubuntu community has been Ubuntu Brainstorm. 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
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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… 
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