The GUI I use everyday is very much like that. I have been using windowmaker as a my window manager of choice for at least six years, if not more. There is lite

The GUI I use everyday is very much like that. I have been using windowmaker as a my window manager of choice for at least six years, if not more. There is literally zero integration with any social networking stuff -- save for the occasional Facebook surfing (which I keep at a low profile), there's only the occasional IRC chat that happens in a terminal. Save for the applications (which use GTK themes, indeed -- but they also respect those -- or whatever settings I have in ~/.Xdefaults) which have their own settings, WM pretty much has the colors and fonts I tell it to. There's no skeumomorphism in it, no hidden corners and so on. To be fair, I do need to be relatively picky with the applications I use to get a reasonably clean experience. There are some tools for which I really have no working alternatives. I eventually graduated from mutt to Thunderbird, but it's fairly overloaded. The only RSS feed reader I found to be reasonably useful is newsbeuter. But in any case, I can still stay away from the flashy crap that has invaded the UI world recently. I kind of feel like a dinosaur at times, but I can do my work perfectly well, so I'm happy.