The pd-gui-rewrite effort has been entirely folded into Miller's pure-data.git and is included in the 0.43 release. The dev/PdGuiRewrite page is there for historical interest. You can find out more about one big feature of this effort in the GUI Plugins section of the docs:

The look and feel of Pd is a very personal issue, so now we can customize it a lot using GUI plugins. For example, I think that straight cords are much more readable than bezier curved cords. As for bugs, please do make bug reports, you can get to the bug report form from the Help menu in Pd.

On Aug 21, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Stephen Lavelle wrote:

Hi -

I was just tinkering around with some of the graphics in puredata, before noticing that there's a GUI rewrite project underway ( http://puredata.info/dev/PdGuiRewrite ). Could someone tell me what the status of this is?

I've been tinkering around a little in the code myself,

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SKz32YaPs3U/TlBQKiAHtyI/AAAAAAAAAdk/_mjg3TRA-GE/Screen%2BShot%2B2011-08-21%2Bat%2B01.23.36.png

but see that some of the things I had in mind to do are on their to-do list, and I may have some other usability suggestions as well.
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