on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:46:48PM +0100, Bob Alexander (bob@ngi.it) wrote:
> Mi??elis Rozenbergs wrote:
> >fvwm?
> >http://www.lynucs.org/?fvwm
> >
>
> Thank you Mikelis.
>
> My question is not really about window managers. I know and have used
> many in the past (amongst which windowmaker, enlightmenet, fvwm, xfce
> etc etc).
>
> My question is really about the feasibility of using one of these "pure
> windowmanagers" along with some selected KDE and GNOME applications
> amongst which konqueror, k3b, gaim, grip etc
I run WindowMaker. You can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers....
Well-designed apps will run with no problems. In my experience, this is
all of KDE, and most of GNOME. Some GNOME apps (see Bug#230756) don't
test their environment correctly and do things which Don't Play Well
with alternate environments. Nautilus in particular. Incidentally, the
Debian Developer here is presuming a WONTFIX from upstream. I'm
inclined to reopen.
To the extent there are incompatibilities, these are largely annoyances
of figuring out how to turn off / disable the annoying behavior. My PoV
is that the apps should figure this out on their own, and it's the
arrogance of GNOME devs in this regard which *really* makes the project
grate on me. Not that anyone's noticed.....
That said: If you're happy and comfortable with WindowMaker, keep with
it. I run all the apps you mention with no issues.
> My doubt is/was that the prerequisites of such programs bring in too
> much of the GNOME/KDE frameworks and that they will try to get control
> of many aspects of my environment again :(
Largely not.
If they do, file a bug.
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
I've just sucked one year of your life away.
- Princess Bride
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