Contributor frogitts

The applications, places,admin set up makes sense the more learn about Ubuntu...kinda.

Why should a new user have to go snooping around like Indiana Jones to find all the options to locate new software. Why not just put all the options as a sub menu of add/remove...?

When you plug in something like a USB dongle, it should be mounted synchronously (-o sync) instead of in buffered mode.

For me, this is far preferable to the minute performance gain gotten by mounting the device in buffered mode. You're very unlikely to be using such devices for anything except data storage/retreival, in which case mounting synchronously is a major benefit. Expecting new users (or those used to Windows XP's behaviour) to know you have to right-click, 'unmount', before removing the drive is not a good idea, as well as just being unnecessary if the device is mounted synchronously. It's also irritating for people like me who know you need to do it, but either occasionally forget or don't want to bother.

Mount the thing synchronously by default. This is what Windows XP does, and it allows you to just remove the drive after any file transfers have finished. Yes, problems will occur if you remove it durung a file transfer, but that's gonna happen in ANY mount mode. It's far more obvious to the user that this will cause a problem than removal of the drive before unmounting. Also stop displaying that 'unsafe device removal' message for devices mounted synchronously.

When trying to access folders and files that I don't have permissions to, actions like "Create folder", "Create document", "Cut", "Paste", "Rename" and "Move to garbage bin" in right-click menus are all greyed out. I think they should be available, but when clicked, the administrative password is prompt. In such way lots of inconvenience can be prevented.

I sugest a user-friendly way to can asociate the execution of any custom command to any key combination in GNOME Desktop.