here's an idea, why don't all the OSS projects out there convert their GUIs to use the Mozilla Foundation's XUL engine? Then the GUI would be completely customizable without so much as a recompile, and you could d/l gui's particular to whatever your favorite workflow is, and switch between them like themes. An easily changable GUI would also allow for much quicker innovation for alot of these kinds of GUI issues that irk people so much..
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seriously, maybe its time for a couple of upstarts to take things in a better direction. It worked wonders for firefox...
here's an idea, why don't all the OSS projects out there convert their GUIs to use the Mozilla Foundation's XUL engine? Then the GUI would be completely customizable without so much as a recompile, and you could d/l gui's particular to whatever your favorite workflow is, and switch between them like themes. An easily changable GUI would also allow for much quicker innovation for alot of these kinds of GUI issues that irk people so much..