On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:40:17AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 06:39 PM 11/5/2002 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:56:59PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > >> Just out of curiosity, does enlightenment otherwise work with Gnome 2? > >> Is this a major irritant or something fairly minor(I don't quite > >> understand what you mean)? Do multiple desktops work properly(each is > >> allowed to have its own background and Alt+F[1-4] switches them)? Any > >> other major issues? I have been reticent to upgrade to Gnome 2 since I > >> have seen things to suggest that enlightenment never intends support > >> Gnome 2 since e17 is supposed to be a desktop environment so I was > >> curious as to your experience. > > > >I imagine most things would work, since both GNOME 2 and e16 should > >comply with the NetWM specification for window managers. > > This is not a direct quote from E developers, but it should be close, and > what they've said is that Gnome follows some rules and doesn't follow > others. Ah, ok. I've been seduced away from E by the power of a lisp interpreter in my WM, so I haven't followed E too closely. > Things like the Panel are badly "behaved" according to some > window-manager specification (is it NetWM ?? That doesn't sound familiar.). I thought it was netwm, but I'm just repeating something someone mentioned on here, IIRC. -rob
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