If tablet PCs take off, then they might be decently positioned to do that since that's what Unity seems designed for (as many Slashdotters have pointed out). That's incredibly unlikely to happen. Tablet PCs have been around for a long, long time and went nowhere. The iPad is successful because it isn't a tablet PC; it's a tablet, period, in other words a giant smart phone running a modified smart phone OS on an ARM chip. Does anyone really want to run Ubuntu, a desktop OS, on an ARM-based tablet? Doubtful.
The death of GNOME 2 and the move to Unity is really making me really resent KDE's permanent obtuseness when it comes to drag 'n' drop (i.e., forcing the user to choose what to do with a file every blasted time instead of moving it if its within a filesystem like all sane UIs do). I guess I'll give XFCE a try when I'm forced for upgrade my current system.
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