It would be useful to create a graphical user interface for the new ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) in Ubuntu. Would be useful to make every new release with an enabled firewall by default and with this graphical firewall utility also.

Broadcom wireless drivers are still common - see Lenovo V100 laptops etc, and having to fight with NDISwrapper or the terrible bcmxxxx driver is a terrible block for new users.

Ubuntu should now have the clout to get these companies to open up specs, especially for legacy hardware (as I believe the newer broadcoms work reasonably).

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

Pidgin stores passwords in a plain-text file, and it doesn't look like that is going to change any time soon. (See http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords)

I am very uncomfortable with storing my Google accounts passwords (for Google Talk) in plain text. Is it possible to make a Pidgin plugin available from apt that would allow for passwords to be encrypted on disk by a master password, similar to Firefox and Thunderbird?

More support for more wireless chipsets out of the box and "Windows style" ease of set up.

I have spent may a day trying to configure wireless cards on Ubuntu, often without much luck!

Please also deliver more support for what they are both wireless PCI cards and USB, as it is currently very low base of drivers for such devices

Its very annoying to carry a whole pc to a place where you can have LAN, just to download ndiswrapper so you can go further trough wireless internet. If it would be added on cd/install, it would take alot of annoyance away.

Ubuntu needs a service that will give access to my full PC desktop through any web-connected device with a browser. This idea is just the logical extension of 'remote desktop', and also similar to the trend towards cloud computing and online desktops such as Ulteo, eyeOS, DesktopTwo, myGoya, OOS, AjaxWindows, etc. But these concepts all revolve around using a third-party's hardware and selection of OS and apps. At this point, these efforts leave much to be desired, the apps are very limited and rudimentary, and the allotted storage is paltry. Also you are forced to trust all that data to a third party.

I already have a wonderful and powerful Ubuntu PC set up exactly the way I like it with fantastic apps and all my copious data, docs, music, etc. Why not just be able to use that fully, remotely from any web connected device? Logging into your very own desktop through a browser would be oh so slick.

This is pretty much the equivalent of a remote desktop with key differences. You have to install special RDP software and mess with internet settings on the client. That's a hassle and you may not have the time or the permissions to install things. It's likely not available at all for an iPhone or a Nokia MID etc etc.

Furthermore, if this were implemented robustly enough, it would also allow local PC sharing. Very much like multi-seat or thin-client concepts, only probably even simpler. You just set up rudimentary little workstations with enough hardware and OS to run a web browser, and hook up to the server through any wired/wireless network jack. Done.

Instead of using the 'browse' button of the uploadbox to select the file to upload, make is possible to drag a file from the file system into the upload box. Somehow it already shows the cursor while dragging, but on release of the mousebutton the filename in the upload box stays empty

Mozilla-firefox-adblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/1865) should be replaced by Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)in Ubuntu's repositories because the Adblock isn't developed anymore (since 2004).

I want to deal with windows as little as possible... so...

Create small installers that could be run as one offs or in batches that would modify a windows install to use disks and printers shared by a prefs panel.

The ubuntu prefs panel should allow creation a small installer application (something avail through http?) that would set up the share on windows automagically.

Personal note: I cant tell you the number of times i've set up a share (IPP or samba) in one minute on ubuntu then spent hours trying to get windows to use it! Not to mention how the different versions of windows have different ways of setting up access to the same damn share.