First off, a slideshow takes time and needs to have a very conservative set of assumptions to work. I think if you went to Ubuntu and handed them a ready-made slideshow, even in open office format without a pre-made video version, that met their standards, they’d be happy to include it, but making one isn’t probably that high on their priority list.

Focus stealing being off by default? BRILLIANT!

sudo dpkg -configure -a doesn’t always work, I know this from personal experience, I spent 3 days trying different commands to fix a corrupted update (standard system update, my power cut in the middle of it, common problem), and every time I ran dpkg -configure -a, it would error. Having this happen automatically would be problematic, because then you couldn’t go into synaptic and fix the problem manually. A button to do it is a good idea, except that means you have to convert the entire process into a GUI workable method, which given the possible number of things that can go wrong would probably be very difficult.

gksudo-ing automatically is a great idea, but I’d like it to be configurable, sometimes I want to run an app that needs root to run properly as non-root, zenmap and wireshark for example.

Bittorrent as the default is a GREAT idea, but I hope the devs keep in mind that a lot of colleges and offices, (mine included) completely block bittorrent traffic, and attempting to get around the block is grounds for disciplinary action, in college at least.

In 9.04, you can rename partitions using gParted, just right click on it and hit Label. I think you’re meaning renaming it from the desktop, this’d be tough as labeling a drive requires it to be unmounted and remounted, interrupting any existing operations. I’m all for it, but the particulars of it would get tricky.

I agree with the last 2 wholeheartedly, although they seem like the little details that never quite get polished up… Here’s hoping though

And thank goodness that better wireless/video card support is no longer at the top of the list :)