What's the current status of btrfs support in Gnome and related applications like Gnome disk utility ( palimpsest )?

I'm a bit worried that relevant application do not properly support btrfs and we take a step backwards and force the novice end to the terminal to deal with various filesystem related stuff if we switch to btrfs by default ( as opposed to make the switch when the proper support is in relevant applications ).

Personally I have yet to see what benefits btrfs brings the novices end user over other filesystems that warrants us to switch to it by default.

JBG