And "minimal" here doesn't mean something necessarily aimed at power users like fluxbox, ratpoison or awesome. I've always thought of xfce as a sort of gnome-l

And "minimal" here doesn't mean something necessarily aimed at power users like fluxbox, ratpoison or awesome. I've always thought of xfce as a sort of gnome-lite-- it looks just as pretty and has all the gui toolbars and widgets that you would expect, but uses a tiny fraction of the resources. It's a great desktop environment for laptops and older computers.