on 5/24/04 11:55 PM, Alex Perez at
aperez@student.santarosa.edu wrote:
Anyways, does anyone else here have any comments. My
apologies if any of
you have found this e-mail incongruous.
Once in a while I have to agree with you.
The windowmanager situation here is not good and it worsens
the GNUstep
experience.
I was talking about this with bheron some nights ago and had
the following
thouhgts.
- writing a working windowmanager is a difficult task, you
interface to X
often direcly, this is tricky. It requires a lot of work and
maintainance on
different OS's, X servers etc
- having GNUstep working on other wm's is nice because it can
be handy
(gnome, KDE, motif-stuff) but for a "true next experience" a
dedicated wm is
still the way to go.
so I thought that the best medium term solution would be to
fork off
windowmaker. Windowmaker is a quite proven and fast wm and it
compiled on
all the computers I have tried (trust me, a maze...)
Many of the features they want to add to WM are
non-interesting for us, I
would go in fact to the opposite direction. Remove peice after
piece
features of wmaker and reimplement them in GNUstep (say
preferences for
example) and integrate them better in a "gnsutep desktop
environment". This
permits the removal of some duplicates (like the fiend app
top-right) and
better integration in colors/themes (thing about wmaker/gnustep
dishomogenity in icons and menu drawing).
Coupled with a custom gnustep display manager this would be a
great leap
forward without requireing the writing of a new InterfaceWM,
even if that
would be a more "clean" approach.
_Riccardo
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