Very informative. Interesting you should mention OSX being the inspiration for Poettering. I always thought GNOME2 and beyond were turning into OSX Snow Leopard (really dumb Nautilus, useless file dialog) and removal of all configurability (and I loved Snow Leopard, sad to see GNOME being a bit simplistic as it was happening though).

I did enjoy using Gnumeric so thank Miguel.

Also MC is pretty useful when you SSH into a box and want some form of file manager.