
No doubt, all of you have heard of Xfce and those who haven't will hear about it soon anyway. I remember trying out Xfce for the first time back on SuSE 9.0. I am not sure if it came with the distrobution or if I downloaded it. At the time 9.0 came out I remember thinking to myself "nice, good potential, could be eyecandy, fast..." but I still logged into KDE upon booting. Sure I tried Gnome but somehow for a windows-commer KDE was more user friendly at the time.
Update: More screenshots of XFce.
I agree with you there is a need of integration of common things, like printing system and multimedia frameworks, freedesktop.org is going in that way with some projects, and I think that is the good direction.
I also agree that ROX filer is a good companion for xfce :-D