For one that has voted for a gtk and gnome environment, and one that was told that gnome would be too clumsy or heavy for a light distribution like porteus, I was really surprised to try pureos 4.0 that comes with a gnome desktop environment. This is a live cd, standing as a quite extended distribution. Amongst others, it offers the libreoffice suite. It looks good, and it responds sharply. But maybe the best thing for you is to have a try with a frugal install or on a usb. Here is the download site:
http://download.linux-live-cd.org/iso/PureOS/
Here is my menu.lst entry:
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title PureOS 4.0 gnome, with Linux 2.6.39.3-pureos
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz vga=769 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=11264 root=/dev/ram0 rw locale=en_CA.UTF-8 keyb=us kbvar=ca changes=pureos_cfg
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz