On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:09:31 +0800
"Rogelio M.Serrano Jr." <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
Now, if you're referring to AfterStep Classic -- that one would have
been a good foundation to build a GNUstep-aware window manager on.
> IIRC,
Widow err Window Maker was originally based on AfterStep Classic...
'nuff said
Where do we get afterstep classic? Im thinking of using that so i
could
become more familiar with how window managers work. I tried hacking
windowmaker but i gave up.
There used to be a port on FreeBSD for AfterStep Classis, but it was
removed a while ago. You might still get a copy from
http://www.afterstep.org/
However, Classic could probably be considered horribly broken, as it
doesn't/didn't really support GNUstep, or Xinerama. Plus,
configuration was a mess -- even worse than the current AfterStep.
Keep in mind that it's about 10 years old now...
My impression was that the ideal desktop is to use a gworkspace on a
minimal window manager so it will be easy to write an integrated
window
manager in gnustep backend.
In that case, I'd rather take a look at wm2 or wmx as those two are
real
minimal window managers, plus they are written in C++ so a transition
to
Objective-C would probably be easier. Those two can be found on
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wm2/ and http://www.42.org/~sec/wmx/
respectively.