KDE not displaying panel; erratic

[Collins]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:59:02 -0800 (PST) "Kevin O'Gorman"
<kogorman at kosmanor.com> wrote:
> You can?  I might get interested, if it's also got multiple
> desktops.  Aside from those things, KDE doesn't do that much
> for me, and does do some things I don't care for.
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but you can run these under xfce.
> >
> >
> > > Interesting idea.  I'll try it if all else fails.
> > >
> > > I'm reluctant to ditch KDE, because I'm familiar with it and in
> > > most respects can provide support to my wife in its use. 
> > > Besides, I personally use a couple of things that only KDE
> > > provides: kdevelop and six, and my wife really likes kpatience.
> > >

Just to summarize:

1) xfce has a panel which includes iconized menu selections and
desktop switching buttons.

2) There is an optional taskbar that allows you to switch windows
directly.

3) A menu will be generated for kde and/or gnome applications if you
have them installed.

4) xfce starts up in mere seconds, and it restarts 99% of your
programs on the desktops/position where they last ran.  A very few
programs don't respond to the window geometry hints, and a very few
simply refuse to restart automatically.

5) I've only experienced xfce/xfwmone failure in several releases and
approximately 4 years; even new features in testing (like taskbar)
were more stable than the average package.

6) There is a very responsive user group, plus lots of folks here use
xfce.

7) All you have to lose is a lot of frustration dealing with kde!

Enjoy,
-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem