GNOME

GNOME is a horrible mess with security and privacy disasters waiting to happen. It is rare that I want applications to communicate with each other; and when I do, I'm satisfied with cut-and-paste or writing to a file from one application and reading from another. What's wrong with the "Recent Documents" menu item is not that it can't be turned off (it can't), but that it's possible even to engineer such a thing. I want to be able to insulate applications from the rest of the system.

Perhaps there is silver lining, though. If we force applications to go through GNOME to "do stuff", adding hooks into GNOME can monitor and sandbox applications to prevent them from doing bad stuff.