@Kovacs: the syntax highlighting in ur aterm window is what app? what i liked about fluxbox was the empty screen i.e. space for windows. ofcourse, the 800x600 in gnome (linux in general) looks like windows 640x480.
even if (i reduce the font size), {web pages, etc. and all my windows will look big at least once. crappy work around}. i used to like enlightenment but after a while that brushed look can be irratating to look at if the whole screen is like that.

(offtopic, i know. was curious).

XFWM is a nice clean wm for smaller workspaces like 800x600 and below. It has a very polished look as well, I use it on an old p2 laptop :)

Hold on your horses, guys ...

KDE is written in C++, i think, and of course is faster. but i think that GNOME is a little bit leasier to use. And Dropline it is a good GNOME desktop for Slackware, the only thing that spoil it, it is gxine .... better use xine at command window. But that besides that, i think GNOME is neat and clean for a newbie like me.

That's just vim, you enable syntax by typing :syntax enable in the command mode.

I fail to grasp the logic behind this. C++ has much object-oriented overhead when compared to C. Though one might argue that GNOME is also written in some form of object oriented programming (GTK), still the choice of language has nothing to do with which DE is faster than the other one, and certainly being written in C++ is no advantage.

I think the speed is highly dependant on the framework (gtk vs. QT), but I'm not a gui pro yet. I've actually experienced some issues with KDE flipping out on me (ususally the mouse will just stop working). I've also experienced slowdown of applications w/in KDE but that's hard to blame on KDE itself. I have learned that starting up in text-mode on boot then starting X allows me the complete troubleshooting freedom required when working w/ X no matter what the WM.

if you install dropline gnome dont plan on updating your system with latest slackware stuff, in my opinion dropline should be its own distro.. better to stick with gnome or kde, ive tested both and when uninstalling dropline to use kde all hell broke loose.

dropline does to much to the system to ever bring it back to normal

I run dropline and keep my system updated to slackware-current with very few problems, none of which that could not be easily resolved (and what problems I have had could be caused by swaret, kde, or dropline). Of course, I've never uninstalled dropline then tried to run kde, but I have no problem running kde with dropline installed.

I plan on staying with dropline, but I was quite impressed with kde3.2. It seems to have the polish right out of the box that I have to install dropline to get with gnome (or spend a lot of time configuring to get with gnome). Also, if you want to use apps for both kde and gnome, kde seems to open gnome apps quite a bit faster than gnome opens kde apps.

true, i think i should have said if you ever wanted to revert back to your slackware system before using dropline gnome is almost impossible because just about everything breaks :(

but damn kde is so polished and works wonderfully ;)

That was exactly the type of info I was looking for, thanks!