I don't know how I didn't see this video before, but I actually made some drawings of my "perfect gui system" a while back and I remember I kept refining the whole idea over a year, only to be disapointed when I actually went to set it up in windows because, well, windows is a customization pain. I'll have to find the papers again, they're in a bin somewhere, but I do know for a fact I have them. I'll go looking.
Also forgive me if I violate some "internet form laws" I don't know about, new to this shiz.