Le 26.10.2013 06:44, Chris Bannister a écrit :
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:15:00PM +0200, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:Any DE can, of course. No WM can, they simply handle windows. If they can, then they are not only WM. Plus, tiling window managers usually does not have any "desktop" and so, no icons.Huh? fvwm is not a DE, but can handle icons menus apps just fine!!
Then it does more than simply managing windows. The "desktop" is in fact simply a file browser that you can not close or change the pointed folder, often with a background image. In my opinion, making a window manager displaying things which are not windows is not a good idea. But that's only my opinion, of course ( I really like the Unix philosophy: one program for one feature ).
But in the absolute, I was wrong with the statement "No WM can", so I must apologize.