> and window managers provide.  EG. kwm's interation with kpanel,
> ktaskbar, and the reliance of almost all KDE apps on KFM/kioslaves.

kwm/kpanel isnt too big a deal - KFM/kioslaves is, as you may want to run
a different file manager. On the other hand the KFM interface is almost
well thought out enough to make plugging arbitary servers into it viable
and nothing stops "gnome_fm" providing the KFM services. Its important
that there is one actual interface defined that is all

Alan