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Re: policy for window managers



On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Joey Hess wrote:

> I think olvwm's behavior is the best of the lot, since it gives the sysadmin
> a choice (and only asks once, not during upgrades, which is also very good
> behavior). I wonder if it'd be a good idea for one of the X packages to
> include a register-window-manager script that could be called from the
> postinst's to handle this, so all window managers functioned exactly alike?

That does sound good, and yes it should be policy. I think just
installing at the bottom is reasonable though; however I don't like window
managers making themselves the default, so I would consider fvwm95's
behaviour to be definitely unacceptable.



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