Bnonn wrote:
Good point; in theory, a lot of the Gnome applets should work, should they not? Still, since they're not components of XFCE, and XFCE doesn't make use of them (as it rightly shouldn't, since that would assume Gnome was installed), the problem does remain in that XFCE is very lightweight in more than one way.
http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/documentation/docs-4.2/xfce-mcs-plugins.html Install xfce-mcs-plugins. It has the applet you want.
The main issue with XFCE, in my opinion, is that it is meant to look more or less like Gnome, but has far less functionality--so unlike with
If you mean "uses GTK2, has windows, icons, buttons , has a panel/dock interface and uses the mouse to get around" then yes, it looks like gnome. I suspect it's only the fact that it's GTK2 that makes it look like GNOME. There's nothing in their design philosophy which states they are making a gnome-alike environment.