Desktop Innovation (Score 1)

I'd really like to see the open source community do something to make using linux not just a valuable tool, but a real computing joy. I stopping use windows because I hated windows, why would I want to use a desktop that reminds me of something i hate? I'd like to see some true innovation in ease of use on the desktop with linux. Pretty icons and colors are nice, but if they don't work in a very strategic and coherant way, you break your metaphore. I have limted experience with using any linux desktops, but why when you have the freedom to do any interface you want, would you borrow so much from the company that you can view as the enemy in microsoft. Give linux a face, maybe do somehting different, let a user sit down and know he/she is on linux.

For the years I have jumped from OS to OS, I can always remember the way my gui's worked.

The start menu is ok, but I don't think thats always where the action is....lets be creative and smart!