Hi people.. i'm here to give you some informations... but let's begin
1st) openSUSE 11.3 Milestone2 has been released and you can install LXDE from DVD or net install. If you need screenshots of the installation work flow you'll find them at http://en.opensuse.org/LXDE
2nd) menu-cache has been upgraded as well lxpanel, they should me now a bit faster
3rd) pcmanfm renamed pcmanfm-legacy Upstream we are working on pcmanfm2 that will be the next generation lxde file manager. pcmanfm "old" project has been already dropped, no more energy will be used there, and the package has been renamed even upstream as pcmanfm-legacy
for that reason, we'll soon move to pcmanfm2 as main file manager.. i'm just waiting factory to switch to gcc 4.5. that change will be done by default, without you need to care.. if you don't want help us testing, or you don't feel ready you'll simply have to comment/uncomment on /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
Best regards Andrea