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Curomo:
I run xcfe under gentoo on a 233mhz thinkpad with 168megs of ram.

I use it with firefox and xterm as my "I don't want to sit at a desk right now" machine and it works great.

The config files are all xml and easy to manipulate.

nihilist:
Hrm.  I generally use E17 or one of the boxes (blackbox, fluxbox, openbox).  E17 is kinda crappy with regards to menus; the boxes are a lot easier.  They're all pretty light, though.

torg:
Well, i tried xfce and after a week i couldn't stand it anymore, dont ask me why... so i am back to e16 and apart from the menu editing madness i am pretty happy with it. i linked all my users' .e16 diretories to my main users' directory so i have to care only for one set of config files.
as i am coding most of the time anyway i basically only use jedit or nano as editors (or monodevelop for mono stuff), xterm for compiling and firefox for the web and for reading documentations. so theres no need for all the fancy stuff that xfce has and e16 doesn't have. perhaps i will try one of the -boxes at some point.
Btw, does anyone know of some kind of documentation browser for gentoo? whenever i install some stuff i have to search by hand for the docs (which never are in the expected directories like /usr/share/doc but somewhere else...)

josiah:
two good places to start: the gentoo wiki, and the official documentation page (also on the wiki, but i think it links to all of the official documentation pages).

another place to look if you want to browse the portage tree online or look up use flags is gentoo-portage.

other package specific documentation is probably available at the package's main website, though this is not always the case. there are manpage readers that can be installed, for instance xman. gnome and kde both have help systems that make reading documentation a little more convenient, but i doubt that any of those options are really quite as simple or as flexible as looking through /usr/share/doc.

torg:
the problem is, that most documentation that i need (for Qt, GTK+, Pike and so on) is NOT in /usr/share/doc.
ok, will have to search for index.html files then....

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