I've been watching GSB's forums and changelogs and they do have a beta for 12.2. They have pretty good documentation on changes you need to make for the installation. I've held off trying the beta while tweaking on my xfce install, and I keep getting closer to what I consider an excellent desktop so I keep holding off.

After my rant earlier today I discovered that Slack 12.2 has fuse installed, but not fusesmb. I installed it via slackbuilds.org and then followed the rest of the instructions for getting a network browser integrated in Thunar. It didn't work for me. For one thing I can not find the "Users and Groups" app in xfce 4.6. It's simply not there. So I can't do the step required for setting my user account to use fuse filesystems. But whether I'm in root or user it still doesn't show any network items in Thunar, just a blank mount point.

I finally broke down and just used smbmount to get a mount point to my main windows share, then added that as a shortcut to Thunar. Will probably just add a couple more for the servers, add them to fstab and be done with it.

GSB 2.26 for Slackware 12.2 is stable now. I'm quite happily using it.

You could also add the functionality of a file system and icons to Fluxbox.

Say for example: Fluxbox + Thunar + iDesk or Flux + ROX

Personally I prefer to use Flux + iDesk + mc (midnight commander) and to heavily rely on the console for the majority of file operations. I became proficient enough with this setup that moving back to something like Gnome or KDE actually became a little cumbersome.

The base system ran on ~65mb of ram.

It's not a Slackware distro with Gnome: it's Gnome with a set of packages for Slackware. All the packages are in a .iso image and there is an installer.

I am using scripts from slackbot.
The website is: http://slackbot.sourceforge.net/

I follow the project and it work
very well for me. If you have problems
with it, there is a forum.

The main script (SETUP.sh) build all the packages
and install/upgrade those for you. And in the end
you have all the packages that can be install on
other computers running slackware-12.2.

Richard