I used Kubuntu for a few months and I liked much an application named "Katapult", a quick application launcher by pressing Alt+space and typing the name of the application. I found GNOME Do, a similar application that works very well.
Katapult is included by default in Kubuntu, why don't we do it with GNOME Do?

I would love it when you could use small icons in all gnome apps. There is no need to waste a lot of valuable screenspace for icons. Everbody should be able to hit a smaller jump back button in Epiphany (example). Another customize toolbar feature: "Use small icons"...

It would be nice if you could select a repeating video and set it as your desktop backgound.

The movie can be just about anything, although "leaves in the wind" and non distracting ones are the best.

Gnome-do is fantastic! In just a few key presses I can start an album playing in rhythmbox. However, after deciding whose music I want to hear, I have to then decide what album I want to hear.

Take a close look guys. This could save us time for the bulk tasks we do!!!

Currently one can add/remove to Nautilus Sidebar extra folders as 'places' that users select as current folders or drop files.

Why not provide after the 'places' and extra list with applications so the user can do bulk tasks with just drag and drops files or folders to them.
For example if one wills not to do the default operation of a file of folder(cut/copy/paste) but to do something else, he has to open the appropriate application, do the dragging and dropping there etc.

For instance if someone has selected lets say 10 mp3's and doesn't want to play them in the default mp3 player but wants to burn them to brasero. He has just to drag and drop the selected files to the brasero that is placed in the Sidebar. Imagine the same for pdf's, txt's etc.

Another usability??? What if one wants to not open a file with the default app??? He has to right click on it, select the appropriate app(if it is on the open's with list) , etc.
If the applications list exists in the Sidebar and the right app. is placed there, a drag and drop onto this app. is enough...and effortless.

Sidebar could have by default under the 'places' the most frequent used and/or opened applications and users could add/remove applications like they do with folders to 'places' right now!!!

GNOME Do already does a lot to help productivity on the GNOME desktop. However this could be expanded further by adding the natural language support, as well as clipboard support of Mozilla lab's Ubiquity extension for firefox.
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
Having this sort of control on the operating system level would give a further edge on compeditors.

currently it is impossible to read names which longer when one line in gnome-do, although they appears pretty often. So i suggest to allow them to occupy 2 or 3 lines. It'll look nice if those lines will b arranged with small indent between them and separated by the larger indent and maybe a thin one-pixel line of non-contrast color, faded in the end.
Also, it would be handy if you will be able resize gnome-do.

As a 'noob' myself the most frustrating thing about Ubuntu is finding things is still completely predicated on knowing its 'address' or being very organised.

linux needs to leap ahead in terms of intergrating web into the desktop.

it stays at the bottom of the screen, it does not let me see the gnome-panel bar at the bottom, as you can see in this screen-shot:
http://bildr.no/view/325777
http://bildr.no/view/325885

Since a long time I'm using gnome-do!
Such a good and necessary program now gets a new skin named "docky". In my opinion, this is the best working dock including the functionality of "do".
I've tested AWN and Cairo Dock but Docky is the easiest and the most instinctive.
I'd like to see, if it becomes standard in Ubuntu.