Andy Gimblett on 2007-09-10 17:02:06 +0100:
Hmmm, thinking on, I seem to recall seeing a screenshot of xmonad with a KDE kicker at the bottom, around the time status bars started happening... Ah, here we are: looks like Spencer's the expert here.
http://xmonad.org/images/screen-sjanssen-kde-kicker.png
(on http://xmonad.org/contrib.html)
Maybe you can do something similar with whatever app Gnome uses to display its menu/status? (Or maybe it's an intractable mess of interconnected bloat - I really don't know. :-) )
I need access to GNOME's network applet (nm-applet) to do wireless with WPA - it's just been a mess for me otherwise. There's no command-line analogue, and xmonad won't display just the applet in its own window, so I've been using 'trayer' to start it up and do my configuration. More than a bit of a hack, but works well enough.