I have installed Ubuntu on a number of friends' computers. I have also had an often complaint along the lines of "my sister clicked something and lost the 'buttons at the top.'"

It would be easy to show them how to click on an easy "reset to default" option on the right-click menu for the panel.

Many people that simply use Ubuntu differ greatly from those who are power users that know how to go in and re-code their programs to work for them. This gap is similar to online gaming, where "n00bs" are a huge gap from "l33t" players.

Many of the "Ubuntu n00bs" are willing to tinker, and have a starting desire to program, but don't want to spend thousands of dollars on College Courses for a simple hobby or buy hundreds of dollars worth of books that are written with the power-user already in mind.

When the user installs a new internal hard drive, it should be automatically detected and mounted. Simply put.

I have a server with 2TB of internal HDD space. When I want to edit a new HDD placed in my system, I have to wait a very long time for it to scan (seemingly) every square centimeter of my Hard Drives. I think that this should be a quick scan.

firefox 3 theme for linux sucks compared to mac os x and vista's. Mac OS X's "Proto" Theme makes our theme look very amateur. Maybe someone could create an "Ubuntu" Theme that looks good, unlike the one now.

Instead of just calculating the number for best idea contributor, maybe change it to #th best contributor, including in the number of votes and comments the user has placed.

Create more configuration options for panels on GNOME and KDE. More like Xubuntu or Enlightenment. Enlightenment (E17) has highly customizable panels, which are extremely helpful for those of us who don't want our desktop to look like a Windows or OSX clone.

It would be nice to have nautilus automatically update the statistics shown whenever stuff changes.

For instance:
If you have a window open under /home/user/music/, and the bottom of the window says something like "80.6 GB Free," then you drag a couple folders to the trash, then empty the trash, the folder says "80.6 GB Free" until you go into another folder or click refresh. It would be nice to have that update as soon as the trash was emptied.

When adding a podcast feed, it would be nice to have a list of recommended podcasts that are open-source or linux related. It would be great to not have to search (although it doesn't take very long) for each podcast feed for shows such as The Linux Link Tech Show, and Lotta Linux Links Linux User Podcast.

Just something small. Maybe a browser to choose from a list of podcasts as well as an address bar to input the address of a desired podcast.

as it currently stands, GParted is a great partition editor for internal drives, but when an external drive is edited, errors are very frequent.