Re: Window managers (was: XFCE for Debian JR)
On 15 Jan 2001 07:32:43 +0100
Fredrik Liljegren <fredrik@liljegren.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:52:25PM +0800, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> > > If you go from Xpaint to Gimp to freeciv to mozilla to Emacs then
> > > Lyx the kids will have to learn 6 different paradigm to save a
> > > file.
>
> Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes:
> > You see, there's a lot of work involved to solve this problem that
> > is just beyond the scope of this project in its current state of
> > infancy.
>
> I would have to agree with both of you. I think that it's a worthy
> task that there desktop environments have taken to solve, and it would
> be nice with one single save-file popup for most programs (even though
> I wouldn't want it in my emacs, just everywhere else :) ). BUT, I
> would say that it is THEIR task, not inside the scope of Debian-jr.
> We can use the things they have allready ported, lite KLyX if we want
> KDE (if that's up to date now, it wasn't last time I looked), but if
> we want to make other programs fit nicely inside the DE, I suggest we
> do that inside their project, not in jr.
Yes sure, I didn't mean that either. This is not a jr work.
Hilaire
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