Spell checking! Brilliant idea. No. Desktops having more screen real-estate lend themselves to having more complex UIs. A tool that you use a lot and know well should have a complex UI. A tool that you are new to should have a simple UI. The Ideal UI would get more complex as you used the tool. But I'm not a UI developer, I actually abhor UI development, so I had other people work on the UI as much as I could: @daniele and @bu5hm4nn . Now and then I meddled and messed up their plans so I take all the blame for UI problems, and they get all the praise for UI brilliance.