Having never used the Mac like Global Menu and 'Docky' before (or even a Mac), I've found it to be brilliant, especially when using Gimp and modifying lots of photos. It's one of the reasons I like this distro so much. Now, in principle I could add these to any flavour of Linux, but the point is you provided this working 'out of the box' and I am really appreciative. This leads me to the whole point of the post. Don't compromise on what you've done and started - keep that promise of making something that is easy to use straight away for the inexperienced amongst us. That's far more important than making it fit into some arbitrary sized iso so it can go on a CD or keeping 'standard' set-ups. Those that are fluent in Linux can de-install things and fiddle around at their leisure - but to install 'stuff 'as a Newbie who doesn't know what 'stuff' is available, then that's a whole lot more difficult.