What do you need on your desktop?

[downix]

To name off specific apps is being a short-sighted fool.  The best idea, as Wayne has done, is name off needs rather than tools.  You never know where the next Quicken or Lotus 123 will appear.

So how about we keep this focused on needs.

What I need is:

1) A fully object-oriented desktop experience

2) Integrated networking stack

3) Integrated preferences system

4) Web browser that can fully support XHTML 1.1

5) XML support is a must

6) IPC system

7) fully documented

Games, need original game ideas.  Don't need the next Quake3 here, but need originality.  Sometimes the best games can come from the most unexpected areas.

[downix]

As "OO" is vastly over used and overrated, care to elaborate on what you mean?

I mean OO in a similar manner to how OS/2 had an OO desktop:  Each program was built-up from other components, and when a new program added new capabilities, those same capabilities were availible to other programs to utilize.  

Say someone makes a viewer for their newest wiz-bang compression alg for video.  In an OO system, this viewer is able to be embedded into a higher-end editor without requiring the compiling of modules to that editor, just need to be able to decode from the viewer to raw pixel data, which can then be manipulated.

In addition, this means that the ability to set preferences is built into the desktop rather than into the specific app.