Recently installed on a new laptop and ditched my old Interface/WTF. I sort of dove in head first when it came to gradients this time.
Basically every crazy thing that could possibly take place on the screen at one time:
Did a few space saving things like running my focus's cast bar through the focus's target's frame (focus is the frame with the portrait in it and focus target is above that). I'm below the focus, pet below me, target to my right (with large target portrait in the lower right), target of target and tott above that. I like to keep a big portrait for my focus mostly because it's easier to see if it's still sheeped while playing my mage.
The little numbers running up on the left and right side are a hacked EavesDrop not displaying icons and made much wider than the set max. I prefer it to SCT because it keeps track of events that pass out of view, and I can view the history by scrolling in the middle of the screen.
Fortunately it's not always so crowded:
I decided to switch from elkbuffbars to something that showed an iconic view, but I'm having a bit of trouble finding something that really fits what I want. I'm using buffalo2 right now, but it's pretty buggy. I want an addon that I can use to configure the number of rows/columns, how buffs are sorted, that sort of stuff (preferably with the bartender3/dreamlayout look). I'm also looking for a mod that lets me move my target's buffs/debuffs somewhere else not attached to my target's frame. Basically Debuff Filter without the filtering. I thought about diving into the LUA to stop the part that filters and just let everything through, but for now I'm still looking.
Edit:
Decided to do this with my cast bars:
