14. This was done for Ubuntu Breezy I believe, it’s certainly done for Dapper
24. Ubuntu have always shipped python, and I believe the mono runtime etc have all been in ubuntus ’supported’ section from breezy onwards.
26. Fixed for most laptops in Ubuntu from breezy onwards.
28. net-applet and NetworkManager mostly fixes these issues for me.

33. Isn’t that what gnome-system-tools does? It’s also easy for the distros to add menu items to existing menus.

I fully agree. I even mentioned that a few months ago to d-d-l. Gedit should go under “programming” and have leafpad on “accessories”.
Also:

32. Have Gnome work better on 128 MBs of RAM. This way more PCs in the third world would be able to use it and help on its adoption.
33. When you trying to select an icon for a new shortcut, hitting a character on your keyboard should move the selected icon to the first filename that starts with that character.

Mine follows
29. I started to like spatial before latest Gnome releases. What now makes me scream sometimes is Metacity randomness in placing windows on screen, and I am not refering only to Nautilus windows.
30. I have an older machine than current standard, and I noticed that placing a little .doc file at the desktop makes the OS unuseable. It is due to gs & convert started in background to make a preview of it. And no, you cannot turn off previewing of .doc files, I had to turn off previewing of any files.
31. Icon and filename placing in Nautilus sometimes looks very awful. Just look at this.

Nonetheless I still like GNOME.

I always combine them too, even on my 1024x768 laptop. But things are tight there.

Great article. I now combine the top bar into the bottom bar and get more real estate. It’s kinda windows like but better than the way it is by default.

Oh ya and Gnome Terminal does suck. I was wondering if it was Solaris that made it dog slow. Konsole is so much better.

And a few more of my own:
14. Replace the built-in sucky menu editor with Smeg.
15. Support for Synaptics touchpads on the Mouse preferences.
16. Full Bluetooth front-end.
17. Nautilus to ask you for the root or user password when trying to write an root/other folder instead of telling you that you don’t have permissions.
18. Nautilus scripts to become “Actions”, to be enriched with a better API and include 4-5 such actions by default (e.g. Extract Here, Grep, Mass Rename, etc). Right now this feature is hugly underplayed by the developers. Also, remove the “nautilus plugins” from the root context mennu and place them under “Actions” submenu too.
19. Be able to go between the path finder and the text entry path widget on nautilus with Cntrl+L, back and forth (right now you can only go forth).
20. Change the “System” menu category to plain “Utilities”.
21. Gedit needs speed up.
22. Important: the several dev tools are under-par (and not in one place — confusing for new devs), and dev documentation is pretty much NON EXISTANT.
23. If they could fork Gaim to make it HIG-compatible and add A/V support to it, the better. We are not in 1998 anymore.
24. Add mono and python to the main distribution (as long as they don’t break compatibility every other moon). Having Beagle and Revelation to the main gnome distribution would be great.
25. Gnome-Terminal is SLOW. Metacity is a monster too.

Generic Linux gripes:
26. ACPI ACPI ACPI. I want automatic laptop sleep support! No freaking scripts anymore!
27. Don’t break the damn binary/source compatibility every so often. I want the wifi driver that I compiled for 2.6.11 to work on 2.6.14. I have better things to do than compiling the same driver every month!
28. A better way to change networking profiles. Just like Apple’s (distro-specific).