Hiya,
I've grown tired of the general windows-look, And I'm in the process of making it (my desktop) look cleaner and nicer. Here's a couple of ideas that got into my head:

1. Upsidedown (don't know if WB can do it)
turn the window-layout upside down.
Like, the Titlebar would be at the bottom
of the window, with the system menu at
lower-left corner, and the close/min/max/
rollup/sendback buttons at the lower-right.
Don't know if this would be any good, but
at least it would be different

2. Very minimal.
whole GUI would consist of a small (not
screen-wide) traybar at the lower-left
corner, Date/Time text at upper-right
(preferably not a bar, just the text, if
possible somehow) and a small bar (with
icons only) at the upper-right corner,
including such as System, Programs and a
couple of configurable entries. And
everything with a clean skin, preferably
something like the "Summer" and "Spring"
look (by eYz). This is what I'm going to
try to achieved, this way, or another.
If anyone is interested, I'll try to make
a "fake-screenshot" of what I'm after.

3. And finally, there's this one idea I
originally introduced over a year ago at
skinz.org forums. The HUD. To make every
item in the UI a (almost) single-color and
transparent (color being preferable a
shade of blue or green, tho there is now
law... but think about pink HUD It
would be great to have the system auto-fade
the non-focused windows to about 90%
transparent, and the currently focused
window to something like 50 to 75%.

but, mail me at nite@iki.fi, if you're interested, I'll try to help anyway I can, but I'm not so good at skinning (yet, anyways)

-Nite