The suggestion at the summit was things like GtkMenu would become finger friendly by default. What that means for other controls, I don't know.

Having a different UI has one clear benefit and one corresponding downside:

• Applications have to be rethought to look consistent on the platform.
• Applications don't have to be rethought to run on the platform.

So you can end up with a mishmash of quality, and sub-par UIs using different controls.

It'll be interesting to see when the alpha SDK gets released (oh, come on - pleeeease) what the new widget API is looking like (if we see it straight off).