The new take on menu usability is, in my opinion, the best thing with your theme. Gives far superior overview, and (like you say) it saves me the hover delay.
I agree that the RSS footer should go. Nice idea, but too much. Simple, stripped down, more simple, is probably key.
One the same note, I think it also would improve the design if the blocks on each "title page" ("main", "content", "layout", etc) where smaller. On many pages I now have to scroll down (ok, Im using kind of low res screen). Seems to be no good reason for this. Why not have two rows instead? The overview could perhaps be enhanced in this way.
By the way, the tabs are super nice.
Thanks for enhancing the experience for us back-end users!!!
