Firebird is decent, but I can't imagine why you wouldn't use konq. I also prefer Kmail / Kontact to Thunderbird... must be something wrong with me!
Can we have TightVNC instead of regular? It helps quite a bit for those of us without much upstream bandwidth. Either way, make it on by default but easily disabled. Regular VNC clients can still connect in, so no compatability concerns.
Samba 3 (waaaay better than 2.x) installed, but easily disabled. Is there a webmin module for that yet? We need webmin modules for EVERYTHING, configuring via flat text config files is sooooo 1980s.
Some GUI tools for magic & emerge would be nice.
Newest openOffice.org (1.1 branch rules!) / Koffice would be nice for those of us who might actually use our xboxs for something productive.
If we're stuck with xfce4 by default, can we have the net and system load plugins from
http://developer.berlios.de/project/sho ... oup_id=910 ? Also, as most users are coming from windows, I think a windows-clone xfce4 theme by default would be nice.
http://www.xfce.org/en/xfwm4_themes.html Silverado or RedmondXP will make them feel more at home... they have enough to learn already without fussing with new window widgets. The themes are pretty light, you could include several, but please make a windows-clone one the default.
I'll add more as they come to me. What's the ETA on 3, by the way? 2.1 has LOTS of updates, it would be nice to have a new dist to start fresh from.