I have never used Facebook, never signed in to their service, never clicked on a button to like anything but still they seem to have created a profile for me and started to spam trying to force me to sign in. I tracked down the data to the (IMHO illegal) scan of address books of friends of mine who weren't aware that Facebook were to use this data to build profiles for people who don't use their service and then would start a spam regime to try to get those to sign in. If I were to pursue this issue currently I could only go after my friends but that would only reduce my real life social network not the phoney online community to which I have no ties whatsoever and to which I never ever want to have any ties in the future. If the new european law would be passed I could go after Facebook and finally get rid of this annoying garbage they send me every few weeks about what I am missing and who is missing me (the latter I know isn't true because I have regular real life contact with my friends) and who is playing which game now... For me they could make FB and other data hogging social networks illegal and block traffic from their servers throughout Europe, most people would be far better off without them...

For that to be really useful the GIMP needs to finally get 16 bit colour depth support. Without that you might as well use an application such as digikam or lightroom or rawtherapee for all your editing needs, the GIMP doesn't cut it currently. rawtherapee is a nice one though and might prove the best for linux yet, the foundations for that are there...

Yes they are, the problem is that they open up a second layer that doesn't interact properly with the appications people like me use to perform our normal tasks. Open up the gimp and all desktop activities or whatever they are called disappear - and to get to them you have to minimize every single application that you currently use.
So the whole idea of having interactive desktop elements is revolting to the point of making the desktop unusable!
Every little application that is put into a plasmoid and not a proper window is a loss to the people that want (or need) to do more than look drooling at the eye candy...
And even then the developers are incoherent in their approaches. Look at the cashew. You have to have one on the desktop. So it seems important (and it now is but simply for the reason that it has been packed with exclusive functionality that really should have resided elsewhere) but try to interact with it while a normal window is taking up large parts of the screen. The menu you get (and with which you have decided to interact with) displayed by the cashew resides under this window - even though I finally relented to interact with the beast I can't because the menu isn't important enough!
Take that as an example how some KDE developers (one in particular) are seeing the desktop as self serving while the normal user doesn't really care!
When I want to edit an image the desktop must take second place and not get into the way of the application but yet the current KDE desktop does exactly that and as long as people like Mr. Seigo don't start taking criticism serious (instead of seeing it as a personal insult) the usability will suffer!