Sure, me too. But imagine demonstrating a panoramic view to some innocent bystander -- the impact is a lot greater if you can pan back and forth and almost get the illusion that you are really IN Helsinki or whatever. It's a lot better without widgets.

I tend to fill my desktops up with them, and my background is just a repeated night sky shot taken from Death Valley. But if I could disappear them, I would pick something more elaborate as a desktop. Maybe Red Square...