That is the essence of the open source desktop's ills. It's not features or the lack thereof, it's unrefined software. Forget the feature flipping and converge to stability. Too much stuff stays broken for too long. It just has to work. The OS developers are so worried about appealing to the would be Microsoft converts that they ignore the people who have already made the switch. Make it UN*X like!

Here is an example of what ails the Open source desktops:
devel1 devel2: I somehow doubt that the sucessor of arts will be simpler.
devel2 devel1: And how can you increase the complexity? Arts invented it's own IPC protocol for christs sake :-}
devel1 It needn't necessarily be more complex. I just doubt it will be simpler.
devel1 I'm convinced though it will be harder to port.
devel2 Why do you doubt that it will be simpler?
devel1 devel2: Because I don't see any of the sound zealots in KDE or Linux going for the simple.
devel2 devel1: What things do you have in mind? JACK?
devel1 They all want some massive uberframework that connects to everything and outperforms Windows.