What next?

[seth vidal]

> - a window manager which isn't the functional equivalent of
>   hello_world.c where I cannot even easily grab a window and just
>   move it to another desktop without fiddling with the pager or some
>   menus (all only allowing to drag the window to the same relative
>   position on another desktop... I'd like to just grab the window,
>   hit the desktop border and can drag along in the next adjacent
>   desktop - as it is possible with about all other WMs. metacity is
>   just inferior). Doesn't have to be Enlightenment, but please... :-)

yum install brightside

provides all the things you listed above for metacity.

-sv