Hi :)
Firstly let me apologize for Walter. His tone was a little negative to say the least.
(I try to make an effort myself to maintain a peaceful and civilized community for us CRUXers)
(I think we all do!)
Secondly let me endorse the CRUX philosophy a bit for you!
CRUX above all else (for me) is about simplicty and ease of use.
(NB: THe original Latin meaning of the words).
That means:
CRUX ships with minimal dependencies with a small core.
CRUX uses the simpllest of tools wherever possible building upon other simpler tools.
CRUX uses the file system to store configuration and logs (well thankfully most software still does!)
CRUX doesn't hold your hand and neither comes with any graphical tools or installers (the best we have is 'setup' that we ship with the ISO that just does some package selection)
CRUX expects you the user to compile your own kernels and mostly maintain your own software stack (CRUX also provides tools to help manage this)
CRUX is more of an ideaology/philosophy than anything.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
CRUX == pkgutils + rc + ports (optional) + prt-get (optional)
There isn't much more to it than this.
In any case others have said the right thing here in terms
of your original problem that you set out to solve :)
There are *icon* ports of various kinds lying about the place
which you should investigate and try to use if you want
to "pretty up your desktop" a bit :)
We hope you stick around! We CRUXers love new users and
we love our CRUX :)
cheers
James