So i really like the smoothness and grace the OSX panel has and i want to put that on my box. Now i have been searching around the fourms and have found some things but not any that fully answer my question.

What apps are out there that pull off the OSX panel well or are actually made to resemble it.
I am using Debian testing (sarge) and using fluxbox as a WM. I would like not to go to KDE or Gnome because its an old amd1ghz with 172 mbram.

I have found such programs as fbpanel,(in the process of tinkering with and engage (which i am unable to get

Please help.
thank you

Alot of those apps are made to run w/ KDE. I run one of those. You can get Kxdocker, ksmoothdock, and there is one other one starting with k. If you are worried about how slow it will run, then I would just recommend changing the KDE WM to openbox and then installing kxdocker, because I doubt it'll run w/o kde.

I do not use KDE at all, i use the x system and then fluxbox as a WM. I do not have a full blown desktop setup.

http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/
or
http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/

As you can probably tell from my username, I'm a long time OS X user. Presently I'm a refugee in Windows XP SP 3 and KDE via Ubuntu/Wubi on the same dual-core Lenovo box.

The panel in all versions of OS X is called the "dock" just FYI. If you think I'm splitting hairs: consider the impression made by myself when I called the KDE Kicker panel a "dock" on a forum with not only longtime users but also contributors to K.

As for OS X/GOS styled dock clones for the x86 Linuxes, you can Google for wbar, which looks so much like the OS X and GOS dock that I just spent the last two and a half hours trying to get it to run in Cygwin/X. No luck, though -- in the end, missing (though installed) imlib2 files and other issues won over my persistence.

Hope this helps.

BZT

the menubar (despite what silversleevesX says) is the universal panel typically found on the top of the screen in os x

the dock is the application launcher typically found on the bottom

there are linux "versions" of both

menubar: http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/
dock: http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/

the latter has various os x themes available for download, as well as icon packs

I tried AWM when I was trying the Gnome flavor of Ubuntu on for size. (Tried the Universal Menu too, for about a day or so.) I don't know if the total updated release of U has meant any improvement, but the impression it left me with was "This is what the OS X Dock would be like were it developed by Nordic fur merchants who don't know enough English to haggle with you." I found it inflexible, unfriendly and more of a pain to bring new items into than any other quick-launching solution I'd come across on any OS, and this includes Control Strip in legacy Mac OS.

I don't endorse it, to put it bluntly and briefly.

BZT

Have you considered upgrading your memory to something like two
gigabytes,that would greatly increase system performance.

Um, you folks do realize this thread started four years ago, right?

A pain? You simply drag and drop items from the menu...