I can't answer your taskbar question, but I think this will tell you why KDE
seems so slow (and it also explains why KDE doesn't work very well on our
system here).
http://www.mosfet.org/noredhat.html
It might sound like Red Hat bashing, but the article he provides a link to
makes for
I've gone back to gnome from KDE because it 'seems' faster to me.
My Kazaa Lite icon travelled with the desktop (pretty cool that). However,
there's one thing I don't get. In KDE when minimizing Kazaa to the tray,
faithfully, in KDE - you can see the icon in the tray on the panel.
In Gnome, when
