@Rocker: They aren't trying to re-code everything from a scratch --- I wish they were!

Dolphin 7 is, or at least was said to be, a transitional bridge between D6 and "the next big thing". As such, depending on how the stars are aligned at any given time, it may have the best or the worst of both worlds, or a bit of both. It reminds me of Windows Vista in some sort of eerie way, somewhere in the limbo zone between D6 (XP) and D8 (W7). Let's hope it gets there sooner than later.