My personal #1 pet peeve for 10.10 was the resize problem.
There are some updates for that including a new gripper as well as increasing to 3px invisible border for resizing. Not to mention that Unity also sports some snap functionality.
The Skype menu is likely a bug w/ Skype detecting which system you are using. If you goto Skype->Options->General it might say 'Desktop settings' and that could get confused detecting what you are using. You can force it to use GTK+ and your issue should disappear.
I'll address the rest of the list in my general follow up to this thread around the EOD. Cheers!
Regarding a better default terminal app, I use Terminator (http://www.tenshu.net/terminator/). It's by far the best terminal I've found and far superior (imho) to ITerm2 on the mac. apt-get install terminator and spend some time looking at the man page.
Regarding window snapping, if you're talking about win7's ability to drag a window over to one side and have it snap to half the screen, check out the Compiz Grid plugin. It provides similar but far more capable abilities.
Upvotes for first 2. The window resizing game is agitating, and window snapping should be a native feature, if there is keyboard shortcut space for it.
Please fix small annoyances in the GUI:
- make window movement and (more importantly) _resizing_ easier.
- add some sort of window-snapping-feature (like win7 or osx)
- fix colors in context menus (if i open the skype context menu in 10.10 i see black font on black bg, or brown whatever)
- make widgets generally better looking. they are looking ok now, but with small tweaks ubuntu could be gorgeous.
- remove the drum-sound when displaying the login-box after boot (completely unnecessary)
- give us a better default terminal-app (iTerm2 on mac is a good example)
i use ubuntu for coding, websurfing, skype and its just great for that. id like to use it for photo editing, video editing, gaming.