This is a design patent, not an utility one.
It's normal for software companies to patent the design of user interfaces.
Example: Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft.

The combined FLOSS (MERIT/FP5) and FLOSS-US (Stanford) developer surveys form the largest survey-based dataset (4282 cases) providing the geographical distribution of developers (see Figure 17). According to these surveys, more than three fifths of the worldwide FLOSS developer community live in the EU, one fifth in North America, and another one fifth or so live in other countries.