[ubuntu-uk] Immediate Problems with 10.4

[gerald.williams23 at yahoo.co.uk]

I've just upgraded and find four irritating features:

I use a standard theme from 9.10 now transformed as "custom"

1 the window control button is switched to top right and is invisible. It's there, but you can't see it, and why swap this and the minimize etc buttons over from right to left and vice versa in any case? This ain't really important, but I find it totally infuriating: what's the point?  

2 the main menu and other icons on the main screen bar  were similarly invisible until changing the background colour of the bar from theme default. Again, not important, but, again, what's the point of fixing stuff which isn't broken? 

3 I have two BlackBerry phones, a Curve and a Bold. Both were previously synchronized with my computer using Barry under 9.10 but now only the Curve is recognized and the sd card readable as a storage device so I now have to work out why.

4 most disturbing is that I have two usb-connected hard discs. Upgrading to 10.4 has resulted in the following distinctly odd situation:

each disc's designation has been changed during upgrade by the addition of a space (shown as an underscore) and it is this which   continues to be accessible to me as the logged-in user, while another location under media has been created with the original designation whose owner is root, to which I no longer have access as a logged-in user . Thus each full address of files on these drives has been altered through  upgrading and all programmes which refer to these files can no longer get access to them. All file references in these programmes have labouriously to be changed manually.

Moreover, I can see no point in these root folders, and am uneasy about their function and very existence.  

Best wishes

Allen
Sale Cheshire
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device