Thanks for sharing this info, Jeffro! BbPress was/is in serious need of a makeover, and this is a grand improvement.

While I agree that the gravatars are too big, a bigger design flaw is the iconography for the "topic resolved"/"topic not resolved" meta data. I love that they are trying to display that data visually, but I don't think they are there quite yet, design-wise.

Also, along the lines of Josh's comment, maybe this means they will start to think about re-writing Kakumei's code to utilize relative CSS positioning... :)