Integrate Dates into the clock applet

I proposed this some time ago.

If you have installed and used Dates, you know that it's an extremely lightweight and simple app to manage your dates visually. The idea is to integrate it into the clock applet, so you get a simplified Dates interface when you click the applet, that lets you create, move, edit and delete dates without having to open Evolution.

Offer a delay before shutting down

Here's a suggestion I made time ago.

Intrepid sports a new close menu. It would be cool to have an option on it, to delay the chosen option. This would allow the user to watch a movie in bed, for example, without fear of falling asleep and leaving his PC on during all night.

This already exists as a modifier for the "shutdown" command; this would just make it more accessible to the casual user.



Also, it would be cool to have a notification when the system is about to close.

Deskbar on the menubar

I sent this suggestion to Ubuntu Brainstorm today: Integrate deskbar in the gnome menubar.

I read this comment on ubuntuforums:

I love how in Vista I can press the Start key and instantly type in stuff to find such as files or apps. Is it possible to do the same actions in ubuntu? I know there are search features and some program called Beagle seems pretty popular, but is it possible to get that same action on ubuntu?

So I thought, why not? Would it be possible to include deskbar on the gnome menubar, so that you can start searching just by clicking the apps menu or press F1?




As for not forcing it on the user, we wouldn't have to. It could be enabled or disabled, very easily, from Alacarte. So it would depend on the distributions (or the users themselves) to show it by default or not.