Any autohiding dashboard/panel apps without tons of dependancies?

[Walter Dnes]

  My mantra is tha I don't run desktops, I run applications.  My
attitude to KDE and GNOME is "The Pox on both your houses".  They have
nice apps like KOffice and "Gnome Office "Gimp, Gnumeric, AbiWord, etc.
I run the apps I need and Gentoo's "emerge" pulls in any necessary
dependancies.

  I've been using fbpanel as my dashboard app.  It lacks only one item,
namely that it doesn't autohide.  Also, it doesn't show up in the task
list, so I couldn't {ALT-TAB} to it if it wasn't set to be "always on
top".

  Is there a simple dashboard/panel, like fbpanel but with autohide?  I
tried "emerge --pretend gnome-panel", and it seems to want to build most
of GNOME as dependancies...

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.8
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libwnck-2.12.2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gconf-2.12.1
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
[ebuild  N    ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.12.2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.12.0.1
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libbonoboui-2.10.1-r1
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.6
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.12.0
[ebuild  N    ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.7
[ebuild  N    ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.12.1
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.4.4
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.12.2
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/glut-3.7.1
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pyopengl-2.0.0.44
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/numeric-23.7
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gtkglarea-1.99.0
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pygtk-2.8.2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.12.0-r1
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.12.2

perlpanel isn't any better

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/XML-SAX-0.13
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Storable-2.15
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Storable-2.15
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.14
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/extutils-depends-0.205
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/extutils-pkgconfig-1.07
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/glib-perl-1.101
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/gtk2-perl-1.101
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gconf-2.12.1
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.10.1
[ebuild  N    ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r9
[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/fam-2.7.0-r2
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.12.2
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/gnome2-vfs-perl-1.041
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/glade-2.6.8
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/gtk2-gladexml-1.005
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/DateManip-5.44
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/startup-notification-0.8
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libwnck-2.12.2
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/gnome2-wnck-0.11
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.05
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/URI-1.35
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/gtk2-traymanager-0.05
[ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/perlpanel-0.9.1-r1

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