>who's doing exciting interesting things with the desktop? X11 DE/WM authors are. FVWM is still one of the only WMs with a true virtual desktop (ie you can pa

>who's doing exciting interesting things with the desktop? X11 DE/WM authors are. FVWM is still one of the only WMs with a true virtual desktop (ie you can pan around a virtual screen larger than the physical one.) CWM is extermely minimalist and my personal favorite currently. Fluxbox has some nice and flexible theming/configuration. I run this on my phone since CWM doesn't work without a keyboard (or at least a meta key.) Don't forget all the tiling window managers. KDE/GNOME have some neat ideas but are slow etc. Most mobile stuff is IMO a regression to some compromises made for extremely limited handhelds in the 90s and not innovation.