Taking another peek...

[Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp)]

Lo Folks!

This is my first post here, be kind :D

I used to use XFCE (Xubuntu 5.10) on my desktop PC for few years a while 
back, I loved how it gave you nothing but the bare essentials, a file 
manager, a text editor, and such.  No silly music players, mail clients, 
web browsers. etc... you got to choose what you want.  But I fell out 
with XFCE on a couple of points that I've put below.  After that I've 
been using Debian and Gnome for some more years, but since using Lenny 
I'm even more *issed that I've got silly epiphany, evolution, and 17 
stupid games that all depend on Gnome!

KDE is now looking more yummier than ever so I thinks I'll try it again, 
but I feel I owe another look at XFCE and see things are now.  I've 
continued to use XFCE on my servers to this day (the ones needing VNC) 
as its tiny.

The two things I remember bugging me were...

- There was no 'Drawer' equivalent...  as in put launchers in the 
sliding drawer, and that on the panel (like Gnome).
- There was no decent Menu Editor (like Alacarte in gnome) that used the 
freedesktop.org specification.

Googling hasn't yet helped me confirm/deny if these are resolved... or 
perhaps even if 'workarounds' exist to get them unofficially.

Any tips?

p.s. I was thinking of trying 4.4.2.1 which is in Debian Lenny/Sid and 
also in Sidux... Anyone used the Sidux version?

-- 
Sincerely...

Steven Maddox
(Cyorxamp)

Cyorxamp's Personal Website
http://www.cyorxamp.info