New to the list.

[Martin Krois]

Hello XFCE4 coders,

I'm new to this list and to XFCE and just want to introduce myself.

I'm a 33 year old guiness drinking humanoid from Denmark who has been 
working in the Internet Industry for the past 10 years as a front and 
backend programmer on various systems. My experience is mainly with PHP 
and MySQL, but also ShellScript, C++, Perl, Oracle, and a bit of this 
and that.

I have also been working as a graphic artist in my younger days, 
raytracing and 2d drawings, but somehow got sucked into the world of coding.

Half a year ago I finally made the full switch from windows 2k to 
running FreeBSD as my workstation. I used to run windowmanager. I tried 
gnome, but it seemed very slow from out of the box, and I've seen KDE on 
other machines which did not seem to be me... I like them fast and clean.

I discovered XFCE4 by chance and it suits me perfectly. Pretty much the 
speed of windowmanager, and not too bloated and full of eyecandy which 
IMHO is useless and annoying. Simple, elegant, fast and effective - this 
is a desktop as I like it, and I sincerely hope you will continue in 
this spirit. :)

I'm very interested in the usability aspect of GUI's, and I hope I can 
contribute with that, and in addition some coding or perhaps 
translations. I'm new to GTK, so right now I'm just checking out that 
SVN trunk.

Martin.