Hello,
It seem like there is a lot of conversation about the Icons contest. It's nice to see that many are concern about the interface :)
Many, like Michael Phipps, think that the icon theme should be innovative and bring new concept. (Photo realistic, Animated icons, 3D, Fx..)
For those who don't subscribe to the main mailing list, there has been movement on better support for icons. Stephan Assmus has come up with a way that should allow vector icon support in R1. He also has written a new version of Icon-O-Matic to support the format. Read about it here:
Just thinking that since there's clearly a lot of talent on this board, if the Haiku team could get these people involved before they lose interest and move onto something else, it'd be of pretty big benefit to the project.
Basically; all the threads here are generally of how pretty the OS should look; and a couple of threads are tossed apart actually talking about the user interface and features to add to it; i think a thread that deals with all UI related discussions should be started.