Agreed. Virtually every FOSS desktop environment out there feels very firmly built on the Windows and OS/2 tradition, and there is very little indeed that come

Agreed. Virtually every FOSS desktop environment out there feels very firmly built on the Windows and OS/2 tradition, and there is very little indeed that comes from any other tradition. The ideas of boldly experimenting with alternatives seems to be confined to "hey, what if we moved the default button into the title bar?"