Ubuntu, Kubuntu...

[Depressed Man]

So I'm back to Ubuntu after trying KDE 4.2 on Kubuntu, then Jaunty (just to see how it was and the ext4 file system). One thing I liked about KDE was the plasmoids for the desktop (how you could set up specific desktop areas.. I had one for desktop, one for downloads, etc..).

Is there anything similar in Gnome?