Modern GUI (window manager, toolkit, etc)
Created by: ids1024
#569 (closed) discusses ways to produce a modern terminal interface (which is a great idea, by the way), but I haven't seen any discussion of a modern graphical interface.
The current interface provided by orbital is usable, but primitive. It is just a typical Windows 95-like interface with a start menu equivalent at the bottom left, windows stacked on top of each other with an exit button at the top right, etc. This is fine for now, but ideally Redox would offer something better.
This issue has received more mainstream attention than a modern terminal, and software on other operating systems has done various things to modernize their user interfaces. Gnome 3, Unity, and Windows 8/10 stand out as examples.
Of course, there is not really any consensus on what the best interface would be, and the above mentioned examples all received a fair amount of criticism. I personally prefer tilling window managers over stacking window managers, but others will likely disagree.
One feature that seems quite nice to me is (some varient of) Unity's HUD, but frankly I haven't used Unity enough to see if this is really so useful. I certainly think the general idea of replacing the old menu bar paradigm with something newer is a good idea at least.
I'm not suggesting that this should be a huge priority, but it is worth discussing anyway.