"it sucks! kill it!"

NOT

how about "its awesome, let it LIVE!"

Seriously, this is really good. I actually had some ideas about the same thing, mostly borrowing ideas from KDE4 and OSX.

First of all, the current widgets should be like OSX or Compiz. Press an icon, and the screen goes dark and the widgets show up.

The close / minimize icons should still be at the top, because that is "natural" for most computer users.

Then, the "cool" part. Similar to Fennec, if you drag the screen, then the Programs, Email, etc... show up. Maybe this is a bad idea, I don't know.

Also, I think there should be a combination of the current menu based program launcher, and the icon launcher shown here. If there are 20 programs, i don't want 4 home screens with a bunch of icons (a al iPhone). Instead, lets make each icon on the home screen a "category," then when it is clicked, it brings up apps in the category.


I'll make a quick mockup if I have time.