Hi Penguinbait, Indeed, I am thinking of this very issue as I have spent almost every minute with my tablet playing with KDE! I really really like it because it is so customizable, and I am just learning the environment, so I don't have a lot of specific recommendations till I work with it some more. I do have a question that is at least related to settings, or my inability to figure out how to change them=). I have initially been playing with the desktop because it offer so much flexiblity, but I may have painted myself into a corner. Here's what happened: I was tinkering with the taskbar, using the 'add applet/application' feature, but in a wayward 'tap', I managed to 'lock' the taskbar in such a way that I cannot now add new applets. Now, I did some searching this morning and found a similar situation in an ubuntu forum, but no solution was posted, alas. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376817 Lazy guy that I am, rather than join that forum and ask there, I thought I'd ask you first, or at least see if anyone else reading this thread knows what I am talking about. If you've been using it you might know that there is a little bar and arrow that is 'attached' to the applets in the taskbar, but after locking the taskbar, those control panels were 'conveniently' removed and I cannot figure out how to get them back. EDIT: @ Pincushion, I see in your post that you know what I'm referring to here....any ideas? Reading the documentation at the KDE site wasn't helpful, alas, especially because the link to the user guide returned a 404 this morning, but I did gather that the application that control this behavior might be called 'Kicker'. Unfortunately I was unable to find this app on my ITT install. I could be wrong about the Kicker thing... Any suggestions will be appreciated, thanks!