Yes, Dean, you're one of the people who complained about there being two panels,
damn I ***** about everything

so now I'm used to using one panel. I figure that 'right-click --> Remove' is easier than adding stuff, so
Looking at it on a desktop system it looks fine especially once I remove a couple items the kids do not use and slim down the time display. So on second thought, it looks just right. For myself I usually create a new panel and drop a couple items on it and done so no biggie there.
Feel free to play with the desktop themes or try others or tell me which ones suck.
None suck, it is just that gtk3 picks up different colors/elements as gtk2 from the same theme. I think it is 'poor form' on the part of the gtk devs but nothing to be done about it. I was just pointing it out so if you did want to do something about it. What I currently do is avoid gtk3 apps like the plague. If I do decide I need gtk3 apps then I grab the greybird theme directly from the shimmer project and install it. That has worked in the past but I haven't checked recently.
Compositing is on because transparency in xfce4-terminal doesn't work.
transparency hurts my brain
I haven't been good in the past couple of months about keeping notes to myself on what needs to be done, so I'm sure I missed other stuff.
Maybe a raise and a paid vacation would help motivate you.
