When you want to open a file, or save a file from an application, you have to use this mini file browser. It is tiny, not easily usable, and particularly frustrating when searching for an image, since you can't have a thumbnail of them.

It should be bigger by default, and it should be possible to choose the view of the file (list, details or thumbnails).

Too often I have to select images with cryptic file names from a file chooser. Because I can't see the images I typically have to open the folder I am browsing separately so I can find image I am looking for, remember the cryptic name, and return to the file dialogue to select the file I want.

This could be easier if their was an option to view thumbnails, or to at least preview the image.

gnome-system-monitor provides a cleaner interface than Windows "Task Manager", and provides many useful features including list of processes running, memory and network usage, etc.

This functionality should be more accessible by key binding it by default to CTRL-ALT-DELETE as Windows does--as this is more familiar to users coming from Windows. The current key binding for CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the shutdown/logout options, which is already accessible as a desktop button, which is redundant for a relatively less used function.

gnome-system-monitor is an idle interface for monitoring the system and killing processes without using the terminal and provides an interface for doing this that most are already familiar with. Changing it's key binding would make it's functionality much more accessible.

The ones with ~ at the end of them. This is not good for security and it's annoying.

There _is_ an option to disable this but, as it rightly points out, if it were to crash at any point in the saving process you've lost your edits.

In Windows XP I use UltraEdit very powerful text editor. The best feature of this tools is using "column mode". When "column mode" is turned on then instead of marking with mouse whole rows only text in each line in the same column block is marked. Then when Delete key is pressed the whole column text is deleted. When "column mode" is turned on and only one cursor is displayed in each column (no character selected) then when typing text it appears in each line in the same column width.

The same functionality is available in other tools like Microsoft Word - turning column mode by pressing Alt+mouse move. Something very similar is in Adobe PDF Reader - turning column mode the same way as Microsoft Word.

Something similar has a tool Kate (KDE environment) by pressing Ctrl+Shift+B (block mode), but it looks like it is not working correctly if tabulator characters are used.

It would be great if there were a way in the included Add/Remove... program to filter out either GNOME-specific or KDE-specific apps. It's really annoying to stumble upon an application that sounds really cool and/or useful, but then look and see it's for the desktop you don't use.

I use GNOME, and I don't want to see any of the KDE apps.

The i386 ISOs do not have anything to do with Intel or the 386 cpus specifically just as the amd64 are not specific to AMD processors. Additionally these descriptors are practically meaningless to non-techies.

What matters for the decision between the ISOs is the difference between 32bit and 64bit, not intel and amd, so why not just call them that way, and thus take away the burden of having to be a cpu technician to understand them?

EDIT: As a compromise, to avoid confusion of the x86/IA ISOs with those for other architectures, descriptors like PC32bit and PC64bit might also be acceptable as that is likely the maximum a home user knows about his or her computer.

When the user clics on the Eject button for removable media in Nautilus, there is no visual feedback.

There should be :
- aspect change when pushed (like any GUI button)
- aspect change on mouse over (facultative)
- aspect change while busy

Those details would prevent an impatient user to clic several times, and to make sure his action was taken in account...

Ok, since i think that anyone can say that Gnome Menu is full of icons and it's hard to move properly and fast, i've thought that a way to "better use" the available space in menus is to make some SEPARATORS WITH LABEL.
I.E. Preferences menu is REALLY FULL OF ICONS, so i'd like to subdivide it like this:

http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=proposal1md4.png

It's like Gnome Control Center...but categories are made in menu (i think it's faster to use than Gnome Control Center).

Uh another hint that i thought:
Maybe categories can be "rolled" (i don't know how to say it in english, but the idea is to make labels like treeview:
if you click on label-separator all childs will be hidden showing only the label).
In this way you can show in menu only most used entrys and hide fewest used without deleting them from menus!

An idea "do X" shouldn't be closed just because "There are no plans to do X." This is the case for idea #525: make thunderbird the default email client.

How can the community describe its wants and needs if the admins close ideas just because Canonical is not planning to change something the community clearly wants.