Ubuntu needs a centrified control panel and disk organizer to manage mount points graphically.

Ok, this is annoyed me for so much that i need to do something about it and complain.

simply 60% of all forum activity is about:

1) wrong display driver / wrong resolution / wrong refresh rate / no 3d / no picture
2) network doesn't work, cos can't change drivers, how to install windows ndis driver for wi-fi
3) how i mount my windows disk, cos there's now way to do it graphically
4) i have 2 sound cards, and only that crappy sound card gives sound

make a decent Control panel to manage computer. not a freaking menu of uncategorized items.
Managing ubuntu's hardware is still too much of rocket sciense and frustrating searching for forums how to simply load a driver to system.... modprobe etc etc and making hardware drivers to load at boot.

new entry name | now available as a menu item, future as a one application
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    display | resolution, refreshrate with override option, AND ABILITY TO CHANGE X-DRIVER, also
                              | info that tells is 3d acceleration works.
    theme | screen saver, desktop effects, emerald manager, desktop background and theme, windows
    sound | sound, default sound card chooser, sound card driver chooser.
    keyb/mouse | keyb, mouse, keyboard shortcut, SCIM
    network | network manager (ip/dhcp/wifi + driver selector WITH NDIS LOADER ALL READY INSTALLED), avahi, proxy |
                              | shared folders, network tools, firestarter / firewall control panel as own items
    fonts | fonts
    print | print, hp print
    discs | new shiny disk & mount point manager, + current external devices module
    language | language (which also change terminal font settings + keymap)
    users | users
    update system | update manager + package source selector
    startup | startup manager, gui, theme, default items, ability to delete kernels from that all mighty multiplying chaos
                              | also ability to install grup again (for broken systems & and startup from live cd)
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     there should be [advanced options] for people who know what they do as
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    init.d runlevel manager, services, partition manager

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if X doesn't start with normal settings, don't just show a error message that gdm is disabled, make nice popup and option to start X in safe mode with vesa driver and 800x600, so ppl can fix display & system issues from control panel and not by booting to windows to look how in damn hell i use command line tools and cryptic commands to fork xorg.conf or how to remember dpkg-reconfigure jadajada... for christ sake.

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mount points & disk manager is for this reason:

A) avarage John, like me, takes a hd from another computer and plugs it in, but there's no way to mount it.
B) after i upgraded kernel, disk id's were created again, and alas, there's no way to mount my windows partitions.
C) freaking annoying to search for forums etc, how to overpass this problem manually.

i hope this post leads at least for some sort of reconsidering about usability - making system just to look good doesn't help if it's not easy to manage and use. and yes, you shouldn't disable features because of ideology of easy use. Things can be made easy to use designing it in mind of easy of use without sacrificing from features.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 7 14:07:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux reaby-desktop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux