Hi, this is not a developers view. I'm just a user, so if you think what I suggest can't be done or is not good, just ignore it, please. <div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We could implement more panel plugins like in DreamLinux.</blockquote><div> Yes. First, it looks good on screenshots. Second, most of us will use them anyway. This is what I would definitely start with: Mailwatcher, CPU-Graph, Battery Monitor (on Laptops :-), no clock, but orage-clock, Network Monitor (one for each device), System Load Monitor, Volume Control They fit very well on a single panel. If you want a screenshot, have a look here:<a href="http://xubuntix.blogspot.com"><a href="http://xubuntix.blogspot.com/"> </a><a href="http://xubuntix.blogspot.com/">http://xubuntix.blogspot.com/ </a> </a></div>And just for the eye-candy sake, why not include something like the cairo-clock by default? <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We could implement search tools like in zenwalk.</blockquote><div> I don't like beagle, so I would be happy with something else. And yes, I have missed it. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We could implement a better working combination of the programs like in dreamlinux and zenwalk.</blockquote><div> Not sure what you mean, but it sounds good :-) </div> > What do you guy's think? Ok, some additional stuff: - A Xubuntu-Help-Center (on the desktop, as a launcher), that guides new users through: first, looking at the faq and mailing archives; second, help them to ask at the mailing list (with buttons to include xorg.conf or similar stuff in the mail), and third: help them to file a bug report! And just a general comment about all the new-look, menu-button, gnome-clone thing, that was on this mailing list for some time: Yes, I would love to see more cool stuff, a better icon theme (I use one of the human-fancy in blue), murrina with the configurator. Dreamlinux seems to rock: when you visit their website, everything is shiny and cool... Xubuntu looks a bit like a gnome-clone. So the first things I do after installing is: remove one panel, change the icon theme, change the gtk theme, change the window theme, install a new cursor theme (Chameleon-White). I would also not use a menu-button, because Windows has one! We don't want Windows and we don't want to look like Windows! And by the way, I don't run Xfce because I have old hardware, but because I think it's far superior to gnome and kde. I hate all this pop-up infos in gnome, and all those useless sidebars in kde. Xfce does what I want it to do and very fast, and that is a feature, even on new hardware! Hope this helps to see the "users view", at least mine... Cheers, Stefan </div>---------------------------------------------------------------------- Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Sand 1   -  D-72076 Tübingen <a href="mailto:schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de">schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de</a> <a href="mailto:stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com">stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com </a> Tel.: 07071/29-78605 -----------------------------------------------------------------------