What you are seing are basically Diablo or Linux desktop apps recompiled for Fremantle. I wonder whether the it you are missing is caused for that or is it really because the Maemo 5 UI is not matching your expectations. If the latter, can you describe your expectations?

To be clear, let's split the Maemo 5 UI:

- System UI: home, status bar, task launcher, task switcher... anything happening "outside" the applications. As said in the alpha sdk announcement, there are some pieces still missing here.

- Optimized application UI: what you get squeezing the new UI elements following the guidelines (that will be released as soon as they are ready, not yet). We haven't seen anything yet, but Hildon is alrady providing all the elements for the developers willing to give it a try.

- Legacy application UI: all the elements kept to ease the compatibility between Diablo & Linux desktop apps. And this is what all these straight recompiles are using.