Okay,
first of all, thank you for these instructions. I know that I always get a bit impatient when it gets to f'king fancy stuff.... I read through almost all of your articles (except that one with the bar, and these that are not concerning the topic) and I think I understood it well. I somehow got an idea of how much time I need to spend from now on, but I think it's gonna be fun! I think the most important part (and that stuff you'll always miss on openbox and awesome) is now for -me- to understand how the window mananger, the display server and the connected configurations work together (?). I guess I'll start learning 'bout that. Let's see where this gets me:)
Aaaand, I'll start throwing those heavy programs away and start slowly replacing it with CLI tools.
I am going to keep you up to date guys :p