GNOME - Future ideas

except having apps know if they are in a horiz or vert panel.

having an app menubar, well visually it gets mixed with the system (?) menu, writing "Application Menu" doesn't un-mess it up.

Is that nautilus background gray? anyway there's so many boxes it looks it even if it isn't, how is this different from a tile view with a high zoom?

folder tasks/app tasks, get grouped into a nautilus windows list at present, as do specific application ones (4x gimp windows get grouped). this happens when space is limited, so your making the user administer the compression of the lists into two lists, instead of having the computer make (what is quite frankly) a reasonable job of it. The biggest problem is everything goes in two menu's, so you can only hide both (totally disabled, why?) or hide half, which aint that useful really, unless your switching to serious file management mode. in which case they would presently get grouped anyway.

Application Information Display - Isn't this what the notification area is for? Looks like a very quick way to use up the whole of your panel space to me, its only gonna take 3 apps and its gonna all be gone on anything other than a monster size monitor

System Applet, well its a partial fix, but IMHO a wrong one, if an applet is small, it should either use up available space (Window List) for extended info, or applets should be able to be put next to each other. making a special class of applets is a bad solution