Mike passed on this Ars Technica article on how the "Task Pooper" could revolutionize GNOME desktop and it's out the box thinking.

The GNOME community's design and usability experts gathered for a week-long hackfest hosted by Canonical in the UK to shape the next major iteration of the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME 3, which is tentatively scheduled for release in September, will introduce new user interface paradigms and include an upgraded desktop shell environment.