I currently run ROX-Filer (instead of xfdesktop) with my XFCE4 setup. I use it
for only one reason - it providea a pinboard, emulating the tiling ability from
the original CDE. I find it's so convenient to have it, that I basically
can't do my work without it.

However, it has some problems, because it isn't integrated with XFCE. Namey:
it has it's own background image (and ignores the one set in XFCE); it creates
a second layer on top of the background surface set by XFCE, which can confuse
some programs and cause them to render 'underneath the screen'; and it
doesn't take any notice of the xfwm4 workspace borders (the most annoying
problem of all), so icons on the pinboard can appear underneath the panel or
taskbar.

The functionality of the pinboard in ROX is contained in one .c file, and some
time ago I tried to integrate it into xfdesktop, with no success - mainly
because I have no experience in GTK and I didn't really know what I was doing
=P But from the outset, for someone who knows GTK, it seems like a pretty
simple job - just copy the code and the hooks from pinboard.c/.h into xfdesktop
main.c/.h and mould it slightly.

So: could the ROX pinboard code be integrated (i.e. stolen =P) into xfdesktop
so that XFCE can finally have a pinboard of it's own? It would eliminate the
need for ROX (an ugly, ugly, ugly program) or switching to WindowMaker for
those who want a pinboard, and it would bring XFCE closer to having the full
functionality of it's predecessor CDE.