A few days ago I have moved back from XFCE4 back to standard GNOME Ubuntu desktop, while at the same time changing my desktop shell for Netbook Remix. This setup is much more convenient than standard desktop on my tiny EeePC 4G, as on one hand I do not need to mouse around as much, but at the same time it is not as limiting functionally as Xandros. And it is stable enough (although there are a few minor quirks here and there). Ten cheers to developers!