Maybe these are viable options for you for two of you points. > > If you have more than a trivial number of windows open, the window > list becomes quite useless. In fact you could eliminate the panels > entirely by using the ability to click on the background with all > three mouse buttons. A sort of minimalist desktop :). Might be nice > to get rid of all those useless icons on the background as well...
You can, this is just what most people expect a desktop to do/have. Personally I have no icons on the desktop at all. It just takes a few seconds to update with gconftool or gconf-editor. > > Who hasn't lost a window by having it end up outside the visible > area? The Window selector should have a drag option much like > right-clicking on a window list icon does now. Never had an entire window do this. There has always been some part of it remaining even if this was just the border, in which case Alt+click allows you to drag it back into view.
