Hello & Xfce is nice!

[Tomas Sören Kindahl]

[A hi/hello politeness greeting from a newcomer:]

   Hi!

   I just switched from gnome to xfce, because of the trashing of my
computer by running gnome. The fat gnome panel seems to munch mem by
breakfast, and some menu/dialog procedures of nautilus is too tedious,
so I thought that a light-weight desktop that is configurable might be a
suitable replacement. Xfce works nice. No trashing (this far)! No 10
seconds of waiting before directories opens (that is: thunar instead of
nautilus). And my computer is *not* slow nor lacks mem. 

   There's some missed important components however: foremost the
AstroClock (which is a VaporWare from MeMyselfAndMyEgo Inc), that
measures time/moon phase/planet positions in any calendar, including the
Tolkienian Middle-Earth calendar. So, now: experimenting with making
xfce-components by myself:

   1. is it hard (many API calls to know)?
   2. what docs, what code do I read?

-- 
friendly greetings
  / Tomas S. Kindahl