The ellipsized names are due to the obscenely small screen size chosen for the review. Pango automagically ellipses words that don't fit into a given area AFAIK so it will probably remain that if you run at 640x480 you will see the dreaded "..."'s. My only hope is that they fix Pango to not add ... if the word is something like gedit which can be truncated to ged... - That in itself is stupid IMHO

I don't see how it's copying Mac or Windows so I'd love to see how you've come to that conclusion. I don't use a Mac but I'd love to know if...

• Mac has an activity button/menu?
• Mac has a single pluggable communications stack like Empathy will provide gnome with?
• Mac allows you to zoom from your current document to view all open documents on all desktops in a well presented format?

I'm not trying to troll but good ideas come out closed and open source source and your viewpoints do nothing but perpetuate the false myth that nothing good comes out of the F/OSS community. In my opinion, the only real catchup they have to do is proper integration with an office suite (OO.org uses non-standard widgets, as does FF for that matter), support of proprietary file formats and then I'd be happy. If you're seeing such wonderful ideas coming from CHI, USENIX and SIGIR then why not churn some stuff out and see if it sticks to the wall? If people like it - great, if not, you can use it and stop ranting on /.

It doesn't do this when you're using them. This happens when you move to the activities view wherein it's the best way to show all of the running apps and their locations. Closing activities moves it back to the arrangement you left them in. I'm sure you can appreciate the usefulness of that?

no way, I've got free will dammiALL GLORY TO THE PLASMACUTTER

Try using the Windows 7 beta, if you can enter the keygen in less than 7 seconds you shouldn't get any audio

foot? oh so it comes with Gnome then? :D