I've been doing a lot of ricing recently, so the competition is as follows: design the best single-workspace desktop you can using any window manager, desktop environment, compositor, decorator, and/or theme manager you want. To get everyone who's interested started, here's a few resources:
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For any non-tiling setups, here's an example screenshot: