Looking back - which changes have carried forwards to Xubuntu and which need doing again?

Xubuntu's not as scary as it seems. I've played with it a little now and so far, so good.

Looking back at an earlier post in this blog to see which changes I made in Ubuntu have carried forwards to Xubuntu, the results aren't too bad:

• Visual effects - there are no such things to worry about in Xubuntu as far as I can tell. I want very minimal visual effects anyway, so this saves me having something to turn off. Good.
• Microsoft Core Fonts - Xubuntu's Add/Remove is found in a slightly different place to Ubuntu's (Applications >> System >> Add/Remove), but seems to work the same way. According to this, the Microsoft Core Fonts package was installed, but the fonts weren't showing anywhere or available for use in, for instance, Abiword. This was fixed by removing the package, rebooting the computer, and reinstalling the package.
• Making better use of on-screen space - this needed setting up all over again. I went to Applications >> Settings >> Settings Manager >> User Interface, and from here ticked the box Use sub-pixel hinting and changed the Font to Arial 9. As before, Arial's a narrower font than Sans so it makes better use of the screen space available - particularly noticeable in Firefox, where the bookmarks toolbar is able to display more bookmarks as a result. On a more subjective level, I think Arial looks better than Sans.
  It's perhaps odd that in Ubuntu I changed the font size to 8 but in Xubuntu have left it at 9. To my eyes, size 9 in Xubuntu looks the same as size 8 did in Ubuntu. I don't know why this is, but I'd guess it's something to do with the DPI settings. Size 9 is fine for me, so I'll leave any further settings well alone. After all this was done I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to restart the session. Once logged in again, everything was looking pretty good.
• Gnome panel - I think I'll just refer to this as 'panel' from now on. Help can stay where it is for now until I'm certain I need it no longer. I've also added to the top panel a Screenshot item which will allow me to take screenshots without having to wait for GIMP to boot, and to the bottom panel I've added a Weather item so I can confirm that at the moment it's bloody cold outside (-2 degrees celsius as I write this). I'd like to add a shortcut to Pidgin to the top panel too, but can't work out how to do it. Clicking and dragging the icon from the Applications menu doesn't do anything, and right-clicking on the icon in the Applications menu invokes the application. I'll have to look into this one on the forums.
• Pidgin - lives under Applications >> Network >> Pidgin Instant Messenger until I can get my shortcut set up. All of the settings I entered under Ubuntu have been preserved.
• Firefox - as mentioned previously, all of the settings here have also been kept. Unlike Pidgin, there's already a shortcut in the top panel so as far as Firefox is concerned everything is good.