is as follows: - Remove: Icon Help Default Gnome Menu - Add:Gnome Main Menu (reduced) Workspace switcher System Monitor Window List (optional) - Remove the bottom bar- Change theme and wallpaper (I'm using the Radiance theme)- Enable effects (if your hardware supports them) - Click on the icon of and envelope at the upper right corner, and set up chatting (Google Talk and MSN) In the end, it looks like this: Installing Google Chrome Beta Since Ubuntu 9.10, I have adopted Google Chrome as my default browser. If you want tips on Mozilla Firefox, look at my script for Ubuntu 9.10 .Chrome's version for Ubuntu 10.04 comes in deb format, which can be downloaded from official website . Once downloaded, run the package manager and install it by following the instructions. Installing Chrome extensions In Chrome, go to Tools, Extensions. I have installed the following extensions:- Anyweather - Delicious Tools - goo.gl shortener + share on twitter - Google Calendar Checker (by Google) - Episode DownloadHelper - Reader Plus - SearchPreview for Google - Send from Gmail (by Google)- Ubuntu Theme: Ambience or RadianceAny other extensions you use and want to recommend? Send us comments! Terminal Settings Bash history: add to ~/.bashrc:export HISTSIZE=5000- Aliases: uncomment or add the following lines to ~/.bashrc:if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then eval "`dircolors -b`" alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias dir='dir --color=auto' alias vdir='vdir --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto' alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'fialias ll='ls -lh' alias la='ls -A' alias l='ls -CF' alias ..='cd ..' alias grep='ack-grep'- Create or edit ~/.inputrc:set completion-ignore-case On"\ E [B": history-search-forward"\ E [A": history-search-backward Latex sudo aptitude install texlive texlive-humanities texlive-lang-portuguese babel latex-beamer \abntex aspell-en gedit-plugins gedit-latex-plugin rubber texmaker Colored Manual Pages (man)sudo aptitude install most & & sudo update-alternatives - config pager Pythonsudo aptitude install bpython ipython python-django python-sqlite GeditInstalling plugins:sudo aptitude install gedit-plugins gedit-latex-pluginEnable plugins and modify settings. Gedit can be a great editor for programming, writing web pages and manipulating configuration files. Make the following settings:Edit - Preferences - View: Check allEdit - Preferences - Editor: Set the tab width to 4 Check "Insert spaces instead of tabs" Check "Enable automatic indentation" Edit - Preferences - Plugins. Enable the following plugins: Quick releaseChange captionsComment codeDesigning spacesSmart SpacesClosing brackets (make sure you like this feature before activating)Panel File Browser (enable the panel with F9)ExcerptsSpelling Checker Install other plugins manually from the Gedit site:open_terminal better_python_console Configuration of nautilus-rename-exif-date:- Change the program /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/python/nautilus-rename-exif-date.py def menu_activate_cb(self, menu, names): """Called when the user selects the menu. Rename the selected files.""" for path in names: img_file = open(path, "rb") tags = EXIF.process_file(img_file) date = str(tags["EXIF DateTimeOriginal"]).replace(":", "") date = date.replace(" ", "") date = date[:8] + "-" + date[8:] dir_name = os.path.split(path)[0] file_name = os.path.split(path)[1] parts = file_name.split(".") if len(parts) == 1: extension = "" else: extension = "." + parts[-1] os.rename(path, dir_name + "/" + date + extension.lower())Create symbolic links to foldersDefault: ln -s target Warning: the following line erases /usr/local/bin and all its contents. In my case, it is empty. It is important to check beforehand. sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin && ln -s /data/Dropbox/downloads/scripts