Yeah, Swype does not float my boat either... I liked SlideIt better actually but even that I did not like enough to run it longer than the trial period.
I love having a "light" ROM. I understand that a chef tweaks the ROM for him/herself but literally every other ROM I tried had a bunch of stuff I did not care for. Not so with yours.
BTW, is there a way to make Manila go to Home tab after the phone goes to sleep? So let's say I leave it on Apps tab, when I unlock it next time, I want to go to Home?