Re: gnome-wm

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.apc.org>]

Am Mit, 2002-10-30 um 00.31 schrieb Christian Marillat:
> Bart Schuller <schuller+debian-gtk-gnome@lunatech.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:50:44PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > For me this is simply a big hack because metacity doesn't support Debian
> > menu and can have a better priority. In some point some old window
> > manager like fvwm are better than metacity.
> 
> > Why would a window manager have to support Debian menu? Metacity doesn't
> > display any menus except for manipulating windows. It's a window
> > manager, not a program launcher.
> 
> A window manager should support key-bindings  You loose a lot of time
> when you move your mouse. Configurable key-bindings are mandatory for a
> window manager.

So what? Metacity allows you to define your own custom keybindings for
both window actions and arbitrary commands via gconf. I can't see an
obstacle here, except, maybe, for the missing config GUI, which fvwm
doesn't have, either.

Johannes