Re: Explorer-type file manager
-- Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote
(on Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 09:19 PM -0800):
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:45:04AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:57:09AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> > > However, applications built for either desktop environment can
> > > *typically* be run without *running* the desktop environment -- it just
> > > means you have more libraries installed, and some processes from the
> > > necessary DE may need to be started by the application in order to run
> > > (kdeinit, bonobo, etc.).
> >
> > That's correct. The only gotcha is kicker and panel proglets don't
> > work as expected, much like dock proglets for NeXTstep clones don't do
> > what's expected when not running a NeXT-ish WM.
>
> What is kicker?
kicker is the equivalent of the GNOME foot menu, or Windows Start menu,
IIRC (I'm not a KDE user; it could also be the KDE panel itself). I
think Paul meant "applets" by "proglets" -- small applications that can
run on the panel; windowmaker (a NextSTEP-ish WM, as is afterstep)
utilizes a "dock" and dockapps or dock proglets, which are very similar.
The big difference is that they're not on a bar, but rather in a special
area on the screen that sizes itself to the number of dockapps present.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net
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