Please add 'Backup and Restore' in 'System -> Administration', with ability to backup my personal settings (including mail), and backup entire system.

I would like a tool that help me to change my ubuntu installation (32 bits) to a ubuntu installation (64 bits), after i installed ubuntu 32 bits.

I think, that probably is not possible to update the system files, but it is possible to update (because in the fact, 32 and 64 are show as same) my preferences, my files (music, video...).

In resum, I would like a tool that help me to change my ubuntu 32 bits to ubuntu 64 bits with the less data lose.

In most newer distributions the old xorg.conf file is gone, HAL is being left behind in favor of devicekit/ UDisks.
HOWEVER now to set up your system the way you want you know have to shut down x and enter console mode and enter sudo Xorg -configure
This is quite complicated, one might have hardware you cannot get working via auto config so there has to be an easy way to get your hardware where you want it without the extra BS.
Lucid is supposed to be LTS, we need to have a backup to avoid the issues we have with Karmic.

It would be great to have a program to have a synchronized copy of a folder transparently.

The user would have a daemon that when detects the conection of a USB device it will look for a backup synchronization folder. If the device has got one of these, this program would copy the new content of the hard-disk folder to the backup disk.

My idea is like having an *repository* with a copy in a pendrive. Thus, making the updates to the backup device in a seamless way.

Some improvements of this software could be: adding support for encryption, adding support for commit to the hard drive, setting folder size limits, viewing which files has been changed.

It would be very interesting for people that has got important data in their hard-drives.

With the popularity of the pendrives (it's easy to have some of 16GB), and the needed of "backuping" data, this software could be a seriosly advantage for Ubuntu.

Someday soon I'm going to want to move to 64 bit but part of my inertia in doing so is the leviathan task of figuring out if all the software I have installed is also available on the 64bit distro. I really don't want to move and then find out one of my key apps isn't available and then, as a newbie, have to schlepp around trying to recompile it.

It would be nice if there was an app that could generate a report checking the software I have against the 64 bit repos an letting me know what there is/isn't 64bit builds of.

Obviously it would be hard, if not impossible, to check things I have installed or compiled manually but this would be a start, and maybe there could be a web page somewhere listing the 64 bit avalability of popular manually installed software like flash and eclipse.

Some often using utilities (like calculator or color picker) have the own window.

By default, that windows hasn't own behaviour.
It's simple window, which hide under other windows and takes place in panel with windows list.

Content of small utilities must have own window type.
More usable for often opening and transfering data to other programs.

Finally i could understand what http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14179/ is about.

When installing Ubuntu, all partitions and disks are not recognized to be writed at '/etc/fstab', which we have to set them by hand. @TalAshkenazi has the point, it's not easy for newbies.

This should be easier to be supported, and as well a tool can help us to edit easily '/etc/fstab' when replacing disks would be welcome as well.

The coders also must not forget there are tons of disk system formats beyond ext, ntfs and fat, like hfsplus, nfs, xfs, zfs, reiserfs, etc.

Also not to forget is the fact of old versions of RedHat (before Fedora) used to do this by default... Why is this so missing on Ubuntu, from 4.10 to 8.10, is a complete mistery...

Would be interesting existing tools for recovering deleted files (recovering after emptying them from trashcan), for all filesystem formats available, like ext2/3, hfsplus, fat16/32, ntfs, nfs, xfs, zfs, reiserfs, etc. - these kind of tools are easily available on other operative systems...

Please make a tool in which you can fill in the following information and it automatically files a package request for you (would require a Launchpad account):

Name of application
Old version
New version
Release notes

etc.

I think there are some available from the repository, but would be interesting if on the live-cd would be available a simple xerographic tool for people being able to use printers with scanners, or those multifunctional printers/scanners, which allow to do simple and fast printed copies, and allowing also to amplify and reduce these copies (like a5 to a4 and vice-versa, custom, etc.), in a very small and simple tool