2) In System->About Ubuntu, I want that to give me information about my machine, and what OS version I’m running. The wording now is goofy: “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 9.04″. The last item in the System tab should be About Computer (or put it in About Ubuntu) which gives CPU type, CPU speed, graphics card, audio card, and Ubuntu Version in a simple table.

3) I still can’t figure out what Totem is, nor why Firefox attempts (and fails) to play video streams with that instead of vlc. I think many people are confused by this and just give up.

4) I don’t like how my USB sticks have a /.Trash folder. Maintaining this takes a little longer before I can remove the drive. And I don’t like having things I tried to delete end up in there.

5) Sometimes when I try to Empty Trash, I click on “Remove from Panel” instead. Ack! Then when I try to re-add my Trashcan to the Panel, it can’t be moved the far right where it was before. It sits there to the left of my workspaces. Do we really need a “Trash Help” and “Trash About” tab?

The cuts fixed with 9.04 are greatly appreciated, so this project is great news! For example, my taskbar always stays at the top now. About once a day before, I would accidentally move it and have to put it back.

Please don’ forget that Ubuntu suffers from some nagging (chronic) basic problems. Along them:

The sound management is a total mess, made worse with a smowhat hasty Pulse audio introduction. Every move aiming to simplify it will be most useful.

The rewriting of Intel graphic cards drivers failed miserably with jaunty. This failure has lasting effects.

This would be my first choice.

I don’t remember which version of Ubuntu started to have the incredibly loud pcspeaker beep on shut down, but before I found the fix in the forums, I’m completely convinced it was responsible for destroying the speaker in my laptop. Now my speaker is “blown” and it’s going to require a hardware fix to get it back to something I can stand to listen too.

So sometimes the “hundred papercuts” are just annoying, but sometimes they might cause real damage.

BTW, how in the world did that bug stay in from one release to another?!!!!

1) Sometimes when I drag and drop a window , the window-toolbar disappears above the top ubuntu toolbar (so I can’t move the window again); I’m using effect jelly-windows

2) The text of the buttons in openoffice disappear, when I move the mouse over the buttons again, the text sometimes reappear .

ati and intel drivers had bad performance and/or flickering issues (dedicated hours to somewhat fixing them..)

and setting up 2 screens differently (not just cloning) in ubuntu (gnome) didnt work at all (except in kubuntu, which worked quite well).

well, Add/remove could also use some better advertising (like android market or apples app center..)

also a welcome guide and auto chat/irc support at first boot would do wonders (just like linuxmint 7 recently implemented)

unetbootin did not work (could not unmount unetbootin virtual cdrom partition) when i tried installing ubuntu to it’s own partition without burning it to a CD (the CD step should be optional)

sharing folders/files on network could actually work better

kubuntu needs more love (with kde4.3 and then 4.4 will actually be the biggest competitor to win7 in terms of features , eyecandy and transition)

a new icon set (like breath set ) and default theme would also do wonders for the time being

well i believe those would be my papercuts