Desktop Customizations

Of DesktopX and Konfabulator, which I stumbled across whilst attempting to skin Google Sidebar: stopgaps. Slick, yes. But still, toys grafted onto the filmy top of XP. It makes me wonder about what the operating system on the other side of a secret seachange to be will look like: what is the idea of computers and what is the ideal? What did we expect these things to do at age five? Instant answers. Framing questions. Green Lantern rings. Or maybe this is just like the last days of patchwork, user-exception Catholicism before I chucked the whole religion and switched to Linux. Cheers.