Well, Lord Raiden, you know you can't get the final sign-off from me until there's an onscreen method for hiding/unhiding the bars (or going full-screen/windowed-screen).

Also, I came up with an additional idea that fits your overall model and would be very cool/useful ...

We could call the inspiration for this "So many applets, so little screenspace."

My desktop is already crowded with just Internet Search, OMWeather, Internet Radio, FM Radio, and Cairo Clock. Then I see something I like such as the desktop RSS Feed Reader, or Countdown Home Plugin, or other stuff I see on the "Show off your screenshots" thread. But there just isn't enough room! And I don't want to keep checking/unchecking in Select applets ...

So, how about if your GUI offered not just screens of Program Icons but could be toggled to offer whole screens of applets (that is, alternative home screens) that, like your Program Icons, could be paged through with those right- and left-pointing triangles?

(When you -- that is, I -- contribute neither coding nor graphic mock-ups, this is pretty easy! )