@vent, actually the brain processes images faster than text and icons are faster, but take a bit longer to learn as if learning a new alphabet.....I used to love trueSpace just for this reason...but to each his own I guess....I actually like the old layout more still....just because the new one seems to take up more screen realestate. The monsterous menus on the left and right of the screens(t, and n respectively) seem a lot worse than floating panels....again that is my POV....but it is free and vastly powerfull so....