Wouter is annoyed by Gnome. And I understand him. :-)

Since several years, I have been looking for a good window manager, and it is very hard to find. Maybe I am very hard to satisfy (and that's probably not a problem with window managers only, thought. M-x doctor help me please!), but I never found the-ultimate-fast-flexible-easy-to-configure-and-do-what-I-want-without-I-have-to-ask-you window manager.
I tried Gnome last year for some days, and I did not like it because it used gconf, and I dislike it, and because metacity sucks. Yes I know, I could switch away Metacity, but go out, Gnome without Metacity is just a wm+gnome panel thing (I hate desktop icons).

Wouter maybe you could give a try to Fluxbox, which I used several years, before switching to fvwm. Fvwm satisfy me because it can do anything you want if you have some months in front of you to configure it *g* !