Re: New windows
Well, this seems like the ideal opportunity for me to advertise my
ignorance:
What exactly is the difference between a window manager and a desktop
environment?
Thanx.
BTW, I second the opinion re: Windowmaker. It's intuitive and easy
to use, it looks funky (and probably will look funkier when I get
drivers for my video card :) and is really quite impressive...
Brad wrote:
>
> Oooo, dangerous ground... Hopefully this doesn't spark a holy war ;)
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
>
> > After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several
> > handy dock apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop
> > environment. Also, Windowmaker looks good! So different from MS, and yet
> > very easy to configure and use.
>
> i like it too, none of the other window managers i've tried have felt
> right.
>
> > Then I see that the big hype these days is KDE and Gnome. I have tried them
> > both and felt I was taking one step back towards what I left. I just do not
> > undetstand why the Linux community are working against a wm "standard" that is
> > not based on what seems truly unique and well layed out: The nextish look.
>
> Supposedly, you can use any window manager (read: WindowMaker) with these
> desktop environments. i haven't actually tried it, never felt the need to.
>
> > Instead I am again presented with the taskbar and popup menus that hasn't
> > really changed for years. Is this to conquer new users, or is it becuase Linux
> > users "secretly" have missed the look and feel of MS Windows?
>
> My guess is "new users"... Although there certainly are some out there
> that like the windows-style menus.
>
> > And in Debian Windowmaker is presented as: "Yet another Windowmanager" when it
> > is actually GNOME and KDE that to me feels and looks like "yet another..."
>
> File a bug report, saying the description doesn't do the package justice?
> ;)
>
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