I would like to convince work colleagues using recent Ubuntu and RedHat distributions to give a tiling wm a try. For many jarring visuals may be enough to create resistance. Thus I have taken it upon myself to produce a well polished Gnome integration. Here I am posting some results of that work. I started with a vanilla Ubuntu Gnome setup. I dropped the lower Gnome panel and its applets. On the remaining upper panel I included left to right: - a standard Gnome separator applet - the Gnome Window Selector applet - a recent dzen2 build with Xft support, configured to occupy the middle half of the bar and to display only the current window's title in a style identical to the rest of the panel - the Gnome Workspace Switcher applet Attached bar.png exhibits this basic configuration. I particularly like having the Window Selector display the current window's icon to the left of the title. Attached window-selector.png shows the applet in its dropped-down state. The biggest effort was getting a dmenu that looked right on the bar. I know nothing about graphics, font rendering, etc. But between Alexander Polakov's patch for dmenu 3.4 and the example of Robert Manea's xft support in dzen I got it to work (dmenu-4.0-xft.diff). To get a properly sized dmenu bar I had to add a -bh option to configure bar height. Net net effect is a dmenu bar using the same font and colors (see dmenu.png). My xmonad.hs at the moment is utterly sparse but does attempt to simplify the process of accommodating additional themes. /john
