From a land of hills and water…
I’ve shutdown AWN and reverted my GNOME desktop back to the usual top and bottom panels. Although AWN is great, and could well be the interface of the future, I guess I’m just too used to GNOME now.
I suspect GNOME Do is here to stay though. 
You’re currently reading “ Giving up on AWN, for now ,” an entry on schwuk.com
Heh, I love using AWN. I find that it is a great replacement for both the notification system (well, the sys tray still has some uses), launcher and taskmanager because it is all combined into one place.
You should give some feedback to the AWN boys in their forum. Let them know what you liked/disliked/thought was missing etc.
Thank you.
I like GNOME, but the default panels are a waste of space, while still looking alien to a windows user. I designed my desktop to make the OS GUI work like the Firefox GUI.
Find windows in the window selector (like the tab list in Firefox) on the far right. Launch new windows on the far left. All interaction at the top (no bottom/top trips).
I think it is efficient in space and mouse movement. You can see the layout in this pair of images that I used to file a bug report on the gnome panel drawer.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/3064503/DrawerOfDrawers_crash_updown.png
Check out wbar. I have been using it for a week or so and it works as advertised.
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