Quick update.
Yesterday I rewrite entire GUI layer for new wallet and get rid of external dependency, build custom controls. Only one minor annoying thing is support resizing form across platform without hooking wndprc, but I just thought of solution. In process of rewrite I ditch tab control, because only way on windows to get flat look is to do ownerdraw control and hook into native stuff that doesn't work on mono. So, now open tabs/apps are vertical list of tiles on left. Its nice. Now that message bus is all up and working, tweaking GUI will be easy, so we get this out door and then can improve based on community feedback.
Other thing I work on today is when you open apps, I keep buffer of controls so you can switch between. And there is Close app button, but when you close it closes from screen but is still on in background, need to dereference. Otherwise thing like the forum stay running in background.
Other thing also for today is making sure clean shutdown when close, and easy mining UI.
Also got the "monitor" working, so you can watch all messages flying across message buses and watch output from particled and know its working. Going to add a activity indicator like blinking green light in status bar as way to know its "alive".
So, preview will come out later tonight. There will still be some things to finish, like pop-up notification in icon in system tray, etc. but at least we can get feedback. I hope everyone like.
Sounds awesome, can't wait!