Gnome-keyring only works seamlessly if 1) auto-login is not enabled, and 2) the login password matches the keyring password. Otherwise, gnome-keyring nags for a password at each login...which defeats the purpose of auto-login.

Security is important. But so is ease-of-use for the most common use cases.

Using the Users and Groups control panel (or the command line) to set up auto-login or change login password will cause G-K to begin nagging. The cause of the change is not apparent, nor is how to stop it.

Ubuntu offers to migrate things like FF bookmarks and other things from Windows during installation.

I think that this should be extended to any other OS possible. The last two times I had to do a clean install for hardy or intrepid, I couldn't do this (I single boot ubuntu).

Please make the Penguin logo ("Tux") show up on startup when framebuffer is turned on:

Turn CONFIG_LOGO on when compiling the new kernel!

I, like many others these days, run an small organization that accept donations of old computers for the purpose of refurbishing and donating to those who are without. We wipe every hard drive that comes through our doors with DBAN; mostly for the ease of mind given to folks who donate a computer; but also because we have, in the past, found ourselves holding a hard drive with questionable content on it.

I have crashed my computer in one way or another several times. Usually its because I managed to write all over my MBR with Windows, or another OS, or plain stupidity of the machine interface, incorrectly named partition, badly labelled disks, the whole variety of disasters. Ext 3 journaled systems are particularly vulnerable when the MBR goes. Magic block backups on the same partition or drive are a really stupid idea. What we need is an efficient and human friendly way of backing up the MBR or magic block online.

The idea of ubuntu suggesting an update server is a great one: it helps the user find the best update server based on their location. But why not go a step further? Since pretty much everyone makes ubuntu select a new update server as one of the first things after installing, why not do this during installation?

If admins could store answers for selected sections of an ubuntu install on a USB drive (and automatically perform actions afterwards), they could easily mostly automate the installation on a wide number of computers.

For instance, admins might save everything (including guided harddisk partitioning) during installation, except:
- TCP/IP settings (they don't want DHCP)

And they may also choose to automatically install openSSH after install via the USB script, and enable vnc

This would make mass deployment a lot easier for admins, and would be a step towards self-deploying ubuntu networks which anyone can set up

There's a great feature that allows to import all Windows settings, however if someone is forced to reinstall Ubuntu, that person has to set up all but first user accounts from scratch, that includes creating users from command line and pointing to home dirs, and after that probably changing owner for these users.

I don't know if "transition wizard (helper" is the real name of this "wizard". For sake of conversing let's say that it is called transition wizard.
Since I tried Ubuntu 7.10 there was an transition wizard in Ubiquity that migrated your documents from Windows to Ubuntu.
After a month or less I decided that Kubuntu was more for me, so I thought that Kubuntu will also have this transition wizard, but this was not the case.
Since then I did reinstalled my Kubuntu few times (for various reasons) and always expected that this wizard will be included in newest version.
But it's still isn't.
So please include this wizard in Kubutu to, as it useful when your installing over Windows.
Any comments are, as always welcomed.
(Is this a dupe? Is this already included and this is more of an bug report?)

From what I understand Unbuntu can't by default install several important packages because of licences or being closed source (If I'm wrong sorry).

But if you expand the LiveCD installer to include a section to ask you if you want these installed by default and ask you to read and agree to their alternative licence before it starts to download and install the basic system. If you decline these licences the installer would then install the free/GPL alternative.

The sort of packages I was thinking about would be: nVidia drivers, Adobe Flash & Sun Java etc.