Time for me to chime in and add my $0.02 worth...
XFCE 4.0 is excellent. It's not quite as full featured as XFCE 3.0, but the
improved graphic interface far, far outways it's shortcomings. I am now using
it quite extensively on the various laptops I own and admin. Everyone seems to
like it so far.
Going away on vacation, will give xfce the full out-of-doors treatment.
As for ACPI on laptops. The stated goal of the ACPI team is to eventually replace APM in the kernel. APM hardware is old technology which ACPI software will eventually support as well as it does ACPI compliant hardware. ACPI in linux is no where near what it is in windows, but it's coming along quite well.
That said, I've been able to finally use the ACPI drivers in kernel 2.4.22-pre4 on a previously "APM only" laptop that I tote around. It's an old Compaq 1278. The apci drivers load and behave well with ACPID...
ACPI works so well for me on this laptop I have not even checked the extent of the apm support.
I am using 2.4.22-pre3-ac1, so maybe I am using a little apm, however unlikely (new centrino notebook)
-Chris I
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