Karsten M. Self wrote: > 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.
Well Nautilus is THE main reason for which I am ditching the full blown / purebreed GNOME desktop. :)
That said: If you're happy and comfortable with WindowMaker, keep with it. I run all the apps you mention with no issues.
I currently have a mostly GNOME desktop with Konqueror, K3b as the main KDE applications.
From GNOME I do not dislike the Panel, the way it handles wallpapers and other widgets.
I tried removing (metacity ?) the default WM and try FVWM but when I logged in (maybe through kdm or gdm) and indicated my session would be FVWM, I would ONLY get a nice wallpaper in the root window and the right-click menu IIRC to exit FVWM.
So I am temporarily back to a mixed GNOME/KDE env. and with my experience and the list advice so far avoided all of the obnoxious behaviours a "standard" Debian KDE install would have.
BTW I feel that the Utopia project babies (hal, udev, d-bus, hotplug) are quite a useful set of toys and IIRC they are mostly integrated with GNOME.
Last item, in this thread I had been pointed out to the EVWM (IIRC) support a "generic" WM should implement to integrate GNOME/KDE appls. I do not rem windowmaker supporting it.
Bob
Peace.
and lots of fun :)