I agree: it would be good to see if only to give the Gnome and KDE people other ideas to pinch rather than from Windows, OSX and each other. But I thought what made the WorkPlace Shell truly great was actually in Presentation Manager. That would make is hard to port to X Windows as a lot of backend would have to be ported, too.

I used to use a WPS-alike on Windows 3.11. It was nicer than the default offerring. :-)

Wade.