Thanks everyone, I've checked out the websites and forums/newsgroups for DesktopX, HoverDesk, LiteStep at (www.cyclone.litestep.com), and NextStart.
To bad their is not a 'Tom's Hardwae Guide' for shells, where at Tom's Shell Guide, lets go to Shell Enhancements vs Shell Replacements. featuring Installations, and Benchmarks, with Conclusions.
In looking at the forums/newsgroups they all have about the same amount of greates, goods, how abouts, and HELPS. and in all of them the greates, goods, how abouts, outnumber the HELPS.
So its hard to draw any conclusions from them as to the proformance or stability of one over the other.
HoverDesk had no online manual, so I'm not sure about its ease of use. LiteStep wow, looks cool, and it says something about its users, but I'm a terrible speller and all that editing where spelling counts, and all those modules, great online manual. And NextStart has a very good online manual to, and as with DesktopX both will do a lot for you with there program control interface.
I've also have noticed that there are a number of Artist that create themes for more then one of these application, so that rules out making a choice from there preference.
One of the last problems is that you really can't get of feel for these programs by their description, you got to test drive them. But boy can that be dangerus.
Just had an idear, how about a pole?
How many, use what
I know this is getting long and boring, just one more shot.
Thank you very much.
