Maybe a Gnome shell like dashboard for Xfce

libwnck >= 2.30

clutter >= 1.12

glib >= 2.32

gio >= 2.32

gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.32

xfconf >= 4.10.0

dbus-glib >= 0.98

garcon >= 0.2.0

gtk+ >= 3.2

libxfce4util >= 4.10.0

libxfce4ui >= 4.10.0

... and the dependencies of these libraries of course ;)

The following libraries are optional:

libXcomposite >= 0.2 (for live windows)

libXdamage (for live windows)

libXinerama (for multi-monitor support)

On debian based distros, all requeriments are installed with:

apt-get install xfce4-dev-tools build-essentialglib2libglib2.0-devxorg-devlibwnck-3-devlibclutter-1.0-devlibgarcon-1-0-devlibxfconf-0-devlibxfce4util-devlibxfce4ui-2-devlibxcomposite-devlibxdamage-dev libxinerama-dev

The homepage of xfdashboard is at http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfdashboard/start

A simple quick guide with screenshots can be found at http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfdashboard/manual

Documentation about theming xfdashboard can be found at http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/theming.html

Documentation about settings in xfdashboard can be found at http://xfdashboard.froevel.de/settings.html