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Where can I send feature requests? Both for Ubuntu as a whole and individual (supported) apps?

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Noel, you need some change in the answer or the answer provided is enough? – Manish Sinha Mar 1 '11 at 21:30
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Most feature requests are ignored, regardless of the venue. There simply are not enough volunteer developers to respond to the constant flood of requests. The best way to add a feature to Ubuntu is to create it, or find it in the wild and package it, or to help a project or team that is working on it. – user535733 May 6 '12 at 23:44
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Individual Applications

For individual apps, the best way is filing a bug requests or feature request in the individual applications.

Some upstream development portals might be having explicit feature for asking user ideas but most of them use their bug tracker for that.

Example, you want a new feature in Synapse (the kick-ass launcher powered by zeitgeist) then you can file a bug request, ask for the feature and ask for the bug to be classified under [Wishlist].

Or before filing bugs for wishlist, you might want to talk to the devs of the particular application. You can look at their mailing list or IRC channel.

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so basically there is no way to make sure that your idea or request ATLEAST reached canonical team? Can getting involved here- wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork be limited to just giving ideas? – Nirmik Aug 17 '12 at 16:33
    
Unfortunately Brainstorm was closed: askubuntu.com/a/321291/34298 – rubo77 Apr 18 '14 at 22:53
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You can make a feature suggest by submitting it as a "bug" at bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu.

Mark the bug with the tag [Wishlist] and the developers will know there is a demand. Only the maintainer of a project or bug superviser can then change the "Importance" to "Wishlist"

These types of bugs unfortunately are not usually given a high priority so you may have more luck trying to approach the upstream developers.

The link to actually file a bug "Report a bug" in the top right corner leads to a page, where the possibility to file a bug is hard to find. The link can be found in the section:

3. Tips and tricks >> 2. Filing bugs at Launchpad.net

It is also possible to file a bug now at the console if you type 

ubuntu-bug

into the console and follow the instructions.

Note: I think this whole process could be optimized and I think it is strange to call feature requests still "bugs".

So I filed a feature-request here

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Yes, and to sort flooding out, the best way to see one's feature request considered quickly, would be a system of votes. – useful Oct 20 '14 at 17:01
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According to Ubuntu Documentation feature requests should be submitted to ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list.

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