X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.
A GNOME utility to help automate the backing up of your important data. While still in pre-alpha, you may install it, and report back in the mantis bug tracker, so it can be improved.