KDE, GNOME, too intrusive for me !! Any alternatives ?

[Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>]

Tried GNOME and found it really unappealing. I find Nautilus really poor 
and especially unusable regarding file associations.

Switched back to KDE and really got annoyed by it's meddling with ACPI, 
 sound and god knows what else (maybe wifi). I like Konqueror (the F4 
open a shell here trick and the bookmarks and the capability of handling 
URLs and the easy file associations), I like K3b but that's about it.

I want a window manager which does only the window manager and then I 
want to choose the applications I want to do what I want.

In th past I was using WindoMaker and liked it.

In your experience the use of WM (as an example) plus some selected KDE 
or GNOME applications is feasible ? Or would the prerequisites of such 
applications also be the libraries that pretend to run all of my PC ?

Hope I have explained myself.

TIA,
Bob Alexander