On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 11:45:11PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > I'm trying to work out what the intended purpose of x-window-manager is. > > This is prompted by bug 194195. > > wdm thinks that x-window-manager should provide an X session with a way > to launch applications and so on. > > xfwm4 ships as an alternative to x-window-manager because it's a window > manager. However all the menuing, panel, other bits and bobs are > provided in other components of XFce. > > Basically I want to know if xfwm4 should be saying it's an alternative > to x-window-manager - given it provides the positioning, window border > bits - or if more is needed in order to satisfy being x-window-manager. > > I read policy but it didn't really seem to specify much just gave points > for different bits. Umm, isn't there an x-session-manager for full environments? x-w-m should just manage windows, IMO, where as x-s-m should be for full environments (KDE vs KWin, GNOME vs Metacity, XFce vs XFwm, et al). -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian: the universal operating system http://www.debian.org
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature