>FWIW my initial reaction to the new look of the message area is very positive. It's less cluttered, cleaner-looking, and the new dashboard images stand out much better than before.
It looks like a nice art work, but, in my opinion, it's distracting from the messages themselves... The eye can not concentrate on messages, it has to go to this area... :)
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