Recently, an early draft of a semi-unofficial art roadmap for the much-discussed GNOME 3.0 was proposed. Though nothing here is ground-breaking, it is the kind of thing we need. Here are a few of the interesting points from the roadmap:

• Seamless transition from login to desktop, without a splash screen.
• New wallpapers, possibly to be found through a competition.
• Animations to smooth everything.
• “Dock mode” with large icons.
• An updated and more modern website.

All of these points are good, but for a proposed date of March 2010, we need more. Keep in mind that this is not supposed to be a roadmap for all of GNOME 3.0, just the art and UI part, but I still think that more should be done. Right now, this is a good starting point and I agree with basically everthing in it, but there should be more. I am not suggesting a KDE 4-style change, but more ideas like the dock mode need to be at least proposed, even if only a few of them are actually implemented.