Idea for Ubuntu: integrated contacts and support
In my opinion, the short answer is that Ubuntu is not people ready and by that I mean Ubuntu is severely lacking in a lot of areas in which people can connect, get help, collaborate, etc. Although, Ubuntu has a great community the OS is still lacking. For example, when we think of the conventional desktop, meaning your actually desk... on your desk's "desktop," in an office lets say, I can call multiple people over and talk them face-to-face, we can collaborate and write on the same documents, we can give each other files and with my permission people can see my desktop and move files around.
So how can we make this happen on the Ubuntu desktop? How can we make Ubuntu function as if you literally had a group of people sitting right next to you when you wanted to?
For starters, I would like to get everyone's input in the specific areas that can be improved. I will then update this thread and start/link brainstorm ideas to that specific idea and then track the progress of each idea into getting into Ubuntu.
IDEAS
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- Users should be able to get remote assistance from friends, family or even paid support in Empathy/Pidgin by simply clicking on a button (proper ports should forward automatically, upnp?).
- Users should be able to collaborate on the same document by just clicking on a contact/IM contact.
- Users should be able to do video conferencing with a group of people. Mingle
- Users should be able to to have only one file/object to manage a contact. In this case, something like the people project or libsoylent should be used.
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Originally Posted by LsrLine
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