Trying changing your desktop "appearance" (theme) or mouse "theme" and in about 24 hours or less, or next time you boot up your computer, the borders around you "boxes/windows" will disappear and/or you mouse will disappear.
BTW, why is it Xfce included with some other distributions has "sound" themes, but it has never been available for Slackware? At least that the impression one gets if they look around the "eye candy shop" for Xfce.

I've become quite comfortable with Xfce 4.6.2 and all I would ask is that someday they provide a "menu editor." Other than that, Xfce 4.8, which doesn't have a menu editor either, doesn't bring anything to the party I use and it carries entirely too much baggage that adds little to no benefit.

I've ran KDE 4.70 for several days and while it is faster than previous releases of, ugh, 4.xx, I just can't rationalize trying up the resources it uses with no visible benefit (and I have the "resources") other than eye candy. There is NOT ONE thing it does that I can see that provides anything that could remotely be called, "increased productivity." "Just because she is pretty, doesn't mean she has a good personality."

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Fluxbox!!!

I used XFCE on Debian for a while, and sound themes where enabled. But that doesn't mean I could get them to work. After fiddling for some time with that I just gave up on that sound thing. Seems to me that they are not enabled in Slackware because they simply don't work.

Now Linus approved!

Aye!

Could you describe some polishes that are needed for Xfce?

Well it just seems that the athstetics and feel aren't consistent to my liking. It gives me a feeling that all the items are there but it not presented in a thought out or completely organized manner. This is only a minor critique. Overall its solid but KDE has a slight edge in my mind at this point with regards to presenting itself with a "professional" attention to detail. XFCE is not far off and I could imagine with a year of work XFCE could surpass KDE in regards to that aspect.

They must work for some distributions or they wouldn't be available.

BTW, I was just over at DistroWatch.com and noticed that on the Slackware page there is no Xfce version number listed for "current." I also noticed it is no longer listed as Xfce, but "xfdesktop (4.8.2)".
Not of great concern, but I thought it interesting.

So I changed the mouse and desktop themes and I didn't lose my borders but I did lose the NetworkManager icon on the taskbar! Isn't that odd. So I guess there are some stability issues. However, I really don't care about themes and with the default settings I still haven't seen any problems.

Brian

Interesting. The NetworkManager applet automatically appears in Xfce, but in KDE 4.7 I had to put it into the start up folder to get it to display.
Yes, if you stay with the default, there are few problems, but, as I've said, get away from the defaults and the "fun" begins.

I've also had some minor graphics problems, but I don't remember what they were and at this point I'm not going to re-install Xfce 4.8.whateveritisnow just to jog my memory.