Panel/Taskbar idea: embarrassingly basic newbie question

[andy]

Stephen Kuhn wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 15:51, Marv Boyes wrote:
>
>>I almost hate to have to ask-- but can anyone tell me _where_ I ought to 
>>unpack this tarball before trying to compile and install it?
>>
>>Thanks in advance...
>>
>>
>>Marv
>>    
>>
>
>Having lived in the Mandrake world for the past two years, I know the
>feeling; I've had to manually upgrade my automake, autoconf, make,
>aclocal and the likes in order to compile progs properly; now that I'm
>on 10.0 OE it's a bit easier; but overall, what I do is I unpack and
>compile things under the /usr/src directory and then always use the
>settings:
>
>./configure --prefix=/usr
>
>as my options for compiling (and always do all my setups via being
>root).
>  
>
Hello

I've been following this thread with some interest and have downloaded 
several of the plug-ins. I am using Slackware not MDK, so am not sure if 
the above suggestion applies.
Being of a cautious disposition, I decided to install one plug-in and 
see how that worked, so I unpacked the date-time tarball and did the 
./compile && make && su -c "make install" trip.
The plug-in compiled and installed just fine, no errors but ... nothing 
appeared on the panel after I restarted the panel with killall -USR1 
xfce4panel
I double-checked and yes: Libraries have been installed in:
   /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins

I unpacked and compiled the tarball in my ~ directory (top level) i.e. 
~/xfce4-datetime-plugin-0.2

If this is the correct way to do it, then why would it not show up on 
the panel; if this is the incorrect way of doing it, what would be the 
correct way?

Finally, presuming that I am able to embed the task bar into the panel 
as I would hope, how do I then turn off the task bar itself?

Cheers

Andy