Like many people who did the same, I wanted some Windoze functionality for my linux desktop too.
For example look at the picture 1 here:
A very familiar thing for windows to create a word document or an excel sheet. But Gnome, did not have the same by default. Not to worry, changing this is very very simple and that configurability is what I love about Linux and particularly about Ubuntu.
Create the following files with the same names in the ~username/Templates directory, where username is your current user name
1. An openoffice.org Word processor document with the name "New Word Document"
2. AN openoffice.org Spreadsheet document with the name "New Spread Sheet"
3. An openoffice.org Presentation document with the name "New Presentation"
and Valla right click on the Desktop or any other directory. Your right click should show something similar to picture here
And hey, as you can see from the frame on the right (if you see this before Oct 30), Ubuntu Intrepid is scheduled to be released on 30th October and the release candidate is already available for download from here
