As I understand the story, it went like this: first there was Titanpanel, and it was written in a certain coding language, and many people used it, so many addon authors made addons that worked with Titan. Then there was Fubar, and it had a different coding language that was apparently less memory-intensive. Some people left Titan and went to Fubar, and some people picked up Fubar who hadn't used Titan. And some addon authors wrote addons that plugged into Fubar. Then Titan broke, and there was much QQing, and many more people went to Fubar, and the number of Fubar addons exploded. And for a while, Fubar was a golden child. Then, for a reason I'm unclear on, Fubar died a sudden, heavily-lamented death... for a new coding language had come to town, and that coding language's name was Lib Data Broker.
Titanpanel was resurrected in its new and improved form, built on LDB. Fubar, despite its beloved status, continued to wither away, as the Fubar author decided he was not going to attempt to make Fubar work with LDB. Many Fubar plugins were allowed to languish, although some continued to be updated.
LDB is not an addon itself. LDB is a language that addon authors can use to make addons. The power of LDB is that an addon author is not required to devote an entire section of code to displaying their addon; they can rely on the fact that you, the user, is going to have a display addon, such as TitanPanel, Fortress (Curse/Wowi), or Chocolate Bar (Curse/Wowinterface).
Personally, I like Chocolate Bar the best. Why? I can make it look like Fubar used to look; small black bars on the top and bottom of my screen that hold my other addons.
Rather than perform any actual functions themselves, these bars 'hold' and display other addons that do the stuff you want them to do. Maybe you would find Chocolate Bar useful simply so you can get all those buttons that crowd your minimap /off/ your minimap; as you can see, all my Altoholic, DBM, AtlasLoot, AutoBar, EBB, Omen, ORA2, etc, all these icons are no longer cluttering up my screen, but are displayed properly for easy viewing and easier access.
(And for those of you who have Fubar addons you can't live without -- I totally do, and I'll post more on them later -- there's Fubar2Broker (Curse/Wowi), which will allow your Fubar addons to work through whichever LDB display you choose. LDB is a solid coding language, but its new, and there isn't yet the spread of addons to choose from like there was for Fubar.)
Even the LDB displays I mentioned above aren't the only ones out there. Try a few, see if you like one more than the other. It's a great way to keep the information and addons you need at your fingertips without sacrificing screen space.
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