Re: A call to drop gnome
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 03:41:28PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> Not sure what this is about.
> Isn't a desktop manager, display environment whatever its called a way to
> present icons that you can click on and it starts a program you want to use
> and then gets out of the way ?
A window manager is a program that allows the placement and resizing of
windows, and controls which one is "on top", and so on. There are lot of
window managers, and many of them offer a whole bunch of features like
menus, icons, program activation from either of those, binding of keys
to actions, etc.
A desktop environment is a window manager PLUS a whole crapload of
additional stuff that I do not personally understand. But it's really big
and really complicated. Like, for example, fvwm has an installed-size of
about 6.5 megabytes. How big is GNOME? I wouldn't be surprised if it's
two orders of magnitude larger than that, just for its "core" components,
not counting a bunch of games or whatever else can be added on.
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