On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 07:38:25PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I still worry about this x-session-manager thing. It almost feels like
> we are agreeging with the BS spread by KDE and Gnome about "desktop
> environments" and all that, instead of good old-fashioned X servers,
> session managers, window managers, and X clients.
W: poster-doesnt-know-what-he-is-talking-about
But given that, maybe it'd be better to do something more like always
running both a session manager and a window manager, and allow the admin
or the user to mix and match them, to have xsm and enlightenment, or
the kde session manager and sawmill, or something. Dunno if that could
be made to work.
> But the end result is that debian is going to contine to promote the
> impression that "desktop environments" are real entities if we do this.
> <sigh>
Another possibility might be to officialise a desktop-environment alternative
that lets you choose amongst:
gnome
kde
xsm + favourite wm
favourite wm alone
Another possibility might be a debconf question in one of the X packages
to the effect of "do you want the default xsession to start the default
session manager where possible?"
Cheers,
aj
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