the 3 ideas you gave uvah are close but not quite there. now maybe i'm wrong but the icons don't change where they are. what i mean is that you don't even see the icons until you click on the main button. think 1 button on your desktop solid black, blue, gray, rainbow...whatever, but when you click it a bunch of buttons show up in spiral design coming out of it or a circle or whatever *i like the spiral design due to the fact that it shows the main button as a starting point "its aesthetically appealing to me that way"* but once you've clicked whatever program's button you wanna use say for instance rift or world of warcraft or even ms word the spiral hides back inside the main button kinda like when you right click your desktop and you get your menu and it stays there until you make your selection or click elsewhere. same idea but only for programs.
the main reason i want this or think people would like it is to get away from having to sift through your programs in your start bar. i like object dock don't get me wrong but its very linear. i thought this would give people a second option and since that's kinda what desktopx's widgets are all about i thought hey lets see if anyone can make this. 