Or, abandon the desktop environment all together, and just go with a
window manager, a panel and Debian-menu (I use Openbox and LXPanel).
Where is Debian-menu?
x@y:~$ apt-cache search debian-menu x@y:~$ apt-cache search debian | grep menu
education-menus - Debian Edu menu reorganization menu - generates programs menu for all menu-aware applications menu-l10n - localized menu entries for Debian menu. menu-xdg - freedesktop.org menu compliant window manager scripts
pdmenu - simple console menu program