The application overview is being redesigned as part of a GSoC
project. Here's a blog post from the student involved in the work:
http://joostify.com/blog/?p=5
From my reading, among the envisioned changes are switching to a paged
view rather than scrolling, and the ability for users to order the
applications.
Michael Knepher
Thanks for intel. I had feeling that it won't be left like it is.