Alex Graveley introduced the Gimmie user interface and panel for GNOME a few days ago. In it, Alex is grouping the most used parts of a modern UI, e.g. Documents, Applications, People, and Computer (network connections go under it too). For info, videos, and shots check here.
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Member since:2005-07-08
Yes, that would be the not-so-simple solution. 
I'm just worried that Gimmie might not be extremely useful to me before something like this is done. Then again, I'm trying it again now and it works pretty well. At least Gaim chats are displayed properly now (that didn't work for me before).
It is very pretty to see the Human trash icon in it's full size. 
Unfortunately most application icons are not so pretty, since they are just the small window title version being scaled up. Which is another thing that might not be trivial to fix.
Member since:2005-06-29
I think this is something that should be fundamentally changed too. Simply letting applications set svg icons as their window icon would be awesome...
Maybe you can and I missed it. Usually if you use an oversized png you're ok (although it messes up windowmaker), like 64x64 or 48x48.
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2005-06-29
There can: You work the idea of a document into something as top-level as X11 windowing, then you work it into gtk, qt and others, and then you work it into applications.
There are other ways to do it, but that's what appears to me first when I imagine how I'd want it done. I'd hate to see it just worked into Gnome libs.
As you can see, it'd be a lot of work, but I'd bet it'd be done eventually and be worth the trouble.