"GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30)... the most user-visible one is of course the reworking of the interface, thanks to a project called GNOME Shell... Another major pillar of GNOME 3.0 would be Zeitgeist, a new approach to managing and finding files by using tags, bookmarks, and timelines..."

Finally, a Linux DE that is actually significantly different (and hopefully better) than the rest out there... let's hope they deliver.