I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

Remove Mono and dependent applications from default Ubuntu Desktop CD. Mono occupies a significant amount of the valuable space on the live cd that could be used for translations and other things. Applications using mono use much more memory than their non-mono counterparts. Functionality can be provided by other applications that are just as good.

This will NOT remove Mono or any of the applications from the Ubuntu repositories, just the default Desktop CD. (Although removing them from the CD may mean they don't need to be in Main anymore)

This affects two applications included by default: tomboy and f-spot. Tomboy can be replaced by either sticky notes or zim and f-spot by gthumb.

I'm under Gnome and I never ever use the "recent documents" tab.
Although there is a clumsy workaround, I would really like to have the option to simply disable it.

It's hard to show desktop on ubuntu, and we don't have an easy and good way to do this.

Accessing folders like Downloads, Videos and Music or Bookmarks was much easier in Gnome 2 as I think, because now you just have a single Home-Folder button.

Take a look at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-06-09#The%20GIMP

It is not the first time that a completely ridiculous, non-sense, anti-usability and "coincidentally" pro-Mono proposal (also coincidentally this time, from a former Microsoft employee) is pushed under the excuse of live cd size.

Apparently live CD size has become such an end instead of a means that ubuntu even considered removing the whole image editing thing to replace it with a sub-par photo management thingy. (No, apparently creation of images is too complicated for ubuntu users, they only want to edit a couple of pictures, let creativity be part of the windows or mac OS/X experience). This time, we dashed the bullet, but the conclussion is way too weak:
"If we still need the room, kick it out altogether"

This is not the first time, before we had another sign, canonical seriously considering replacing Rhythmbox (second most popular Linux music player, correctly working, good features, good amount of ubuntu users that like it) with Banshee (a feature lacking, mono-driven, unstable app only liked by Mono zealots) again under the extremely lame excuse of live CD size.

This situation is getting ridiculous.

Some points:

* The current default app distribution just works. Jaunty had tons of good reviews. In no place were there complains about X esoteric program missing.

* The current default app distribution already fits a CD. In other words, CD size is a problem only if you want to add new packages. What new packages? Is it really wise to replace raw functionality with some incredibly unknown package named "couchdb" that, I as an ubuntu user have never needed ?

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I think mounted folders should only appear in computer:/// or network:/// and not on the desktop. This will clean up the desktop and avoid confusion. Maybe with the option of having it on your desktop if you really want. I have like 3 ssh folders 6ftps it gets messy

Ubuntu Unity allows you to change the transparency of the panel in CompizConfig Settings Manager. This looks nice and fits with the sidebar. However, when a window is maximized, this looks redundant and does not match with that window.

Radiance theme is one of the most beautiful themes I've ever seen, but it bugs me that Unity sidebar remains black when everything else is light.

we have the ability to add quicklist but there's no on the most used apps