I've finished preparing my ED partition for uploading. It contains all discussed tweaks (LibreOffice instead of Open Office, Chromium instead of Iceweasel, fixed pulseaudio) + few more. I'm now tar.gz'ing it.

I've spent few hours adjusting GUI settings and panel configurations, including portrait ones (which is quite funny, as I don't think I'll ever use that, but, whatever...). sulu's panels were totally depending on his applications (no offense, as he never stated, that it's looking otherwise) - on my image, being qole's v3e, dist-upgraded to Squeeze, with tweaks mentioned before - only 3 icons were pointing to existing things so I decided to re-create them from scratch.
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In between, I got an idea, that allow us to save precious screen space, and have it all (namely, 800x480 pixels) available for programs, *without* sacrificing existence of panels. Configured to automatically hide, when setup properly, they pop-up on tapping just *outside* the screen. They're perfectly functional, and just disappear when not needed - popping up, they're also on top, so aren't covered by any application, despite it use all available screen.

It require (very) little practice, and, overall, getting used to, but works great. Added benefit, is that we can have larger icons (etc) in panels, to the point of (almost) finger-friendly - popping up and hiding on request, their size doesn't matter.

Honestly, it turned out to work so good (after little tweaking), that it feels just like having 2 new buttons outside N900 screen It may be hard to describe by writing, but You'll get what I mean. Just remember, to tap a little bit "outside" screen, on panel's side (tapping need to be a little bit stronger than usual).

Rationale:
Technically, we're using characteristic of resistive touchscreen - it's much less responsible on edges, so tapping "outside", result unavoidably on (registered) short, yet quick "swipe" from inside screen to the edge. Normally, it may be considered con, but in our case, it emulates moving mouse cursor "to the very edge".

On portrait with "docked" xvkbd, I've set top panel to be always visible - it use space from xvkbd head's border (not used for anything), so no reason to hide it.
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I wasn't able to find sulu's orientation.desktop anywhere, so I created one from scratch, using CSSU's image from orientation-lock applet - it fits perfectly as icon for rotating. Of course it's placed on top panel, being easily reachable.

The only glitch I've found, is that after rotation, desktop background doesn't refresh properly (I've set it up a way, that it *should* look good on both landscape [no change here] and portrait) - after "forcing" refresh (by changing desktop display setting, and changing it back), it looks OK, but fail to do so automatically.

Of course, it's *very* minor thing, yet, if someone know good way to force desktop's image refresh in LXDE (kill? What to kill?), I can still update orientation script inside tar.gz to do so.
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I'll upload it as tar.gz - so, perfectly ready for unpacking in dedicated ED partition (will post appropriate command + which file tweak to make chroot look @ for partition, not image file). I can also create image file, if someone tell me how to prepare one accepted by ED, step by step (never used images, and I'm not interested in doing so, due to *high* performance loss when using partition images vs real partition)

/Estel