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Can I install the XFCE desktop and Thunar for a true XFCE session on SliTaz 3.0 instead of the OpenBox? and if so, will it bread my system?
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No it won't break your system and I've done it before. There even exists a flavor of SliTaz that uses XFCE by default. It is however a little tricky to setup at first because you need to change it so your login manager (slim) used it by default. This can be done by changing the order under the login manager tab of the Control Box by putting xfce4 before openbox. Remember to click Change to save the changes.
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So if I was to install XFCE, how exactly would I go about it. I am afraid I will screw something up.
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Hey I tried it and it did not work, it looks the same as it did before I installed xfce4
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Try pressing F11 at the login manager and select XFCE4
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Ok, I'm currently running XFCE4 now. To get it yourself (and assuming you've installed the xfce4 packages), just go to Menu---> Settings---> Control Box and click on the Login Manager Tab. In the session box, put xfce4 in front of openbox (so it looks something like: xfce4,openbox) and click Change. And exit. Now click logout from the panel to get to the login manager. Now press F1 to select xfce4 and login. It might give you an error about your hostname not being in /etc/hosts. Just click Continue anyway. And there you have it. You're using XFCE.
You can now add your hostname (mind is trixarian) to /etc/hosts by doing the following:
1.) Open a terminal emulator (like xterm or sakura)
2.) su to root (type su, press enter/return and enter your root password)
3.) leafpad /etc/hosts and replace slitaz with your host name so it looks like:
[c]127.0.0.1 localhost trixarian[/c]
And it should be working like you expect.
EDIT: Ok, there is more to it 
- Go to Menu ---> Settings ---> Favourite Applications and change File Manager to thunar and Windows Manager to xfce4-session - click Change next to both boxes and exit. Now open a terminal and type leafpad .xsession and make comment out (add a # before) the line exec openbox-session and add a line below it [c]exec xfce4-session[/c]. Save and exit. Now type leafpad .xinitrc and make sure the xfce4 lines look like this:
[c]xfce|xfce4|xfce4-session)
xfce4-session ;;[/c]
Save and exit. Now you can restart your SliTaz without worrying about getting some kind of error and it now will default to XFCE.
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Sorry to bring this topic up again, but where can I get this SliTaz XFCE flavor? I looked on the SliTaz 3.0 flavors directories and none of those seemed to be it.
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The xfce flavor iso is built on cooking:
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/cooking/flavors/slitaz-cooking-core-xfce.iso
# SliTaz flavor receipt.
FLAVOR="core-xfce"
SHORT_DESC="SliTaz Core with XFCE Desktop, Firefox and Mercurial"
VERSION="20100512"
MAINTAINER="miltonsj@gmail.com"
FRUGAL_RAM="320M"
ROOTFS_SIZE="252.8M"
INITRAMFS_SIZE="54.3M"
ISO_SIZE="57.1M"
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any updated xfce cooking? 
The file dates on the xfce packages in the cooking repo are older than the core-xfce.iso
So my answer is no
There are other packages in the flavor that have been updated.
Make your own core-xfce.iso with updated packages:
#tazlito get-flavor core-xfce
#tazlito gen-distro
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I just ran the commands:
#tazlito get-flavor core-xfce
#tazlito gen-distro
from a 3.0 live cd in virtualbox and uploaded the slitaz.iso, but it somehow seems to be just the 3.0 lxde build...
Here is the iso:
http://x7.to/qjyy74
As you can see there are also no xf* binaries in /usr/bin or elsewhere, like xfwm4 or something similar
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