Completely agree. Their focus on design as all of how-it-looks, how-it-works, and performance-is-a-feature is very promising for a Linux Desktop, as are the hard work and sacrifices they're willing to go to get that - rewriting everything in Vala and GTK3 namely.
Their app-data-sharing component, Contractor, is also interesting. I've had at least one idea I wanted to try in the past but couldn't figure out how to implement it b/c apps are not aware of other running apps. I wonder if Contractor will make that possible.
These guys have created a really strong base to build upon, and appear to be innovative problem solvers. They're also tuned into the problems of power users, referencing the whole Gnome2/3 brouhaha. Really looking forward to seeing how this develops, and to it getting to a point I can completely replace Ubuntu desktop with it.
Their app-data-sharing component, Contractor, is also interesting. I've had at least one idea I wanted to try in the past but couldn't figure out how to implement it b/c apps are not aware of other running apps. I wonder if Contractor will make that possible.
These guys have created a really strong base to build upon, and appear to be innovative problem solvers. They're also tuned into the problems of power users, referencing the whole Gnome2/3 brouhaha. Really looking forward to seeing how this develops, and to it getting to a point I can completely replace Ubuntu desktop with it.