I'm curious; has anyone managed to get a non-hildon-desktop panel (with the menu, switcher, etc) and systray (with icons for presence, bluetooth, wlan, volume/brightness, battery, etc) to start up? As nice as the hildon panels are, I'd like to have a more configurable set. It seems to me that we should be able to find a standard set of (gnome/gtk) panels and point them to the hildon panel plugins...

This would be a very cool hack!