Re: Getting serious about releasing

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra writes:
|Now, first of all, I agree that we can have a simpler window manager for
|less experienced users (I think that sawfish in novice mode is quite
|enough, but I don't have anything against having two choices) and
|metacity does that job well. However, there's no need to cripple
|sawfish.

Just about all the options (except the most bizarre) are still there,
but they're not exposed through the user interface any more.

|
|Two things I consider very bad decisions:
|  - removal of different levels of configuration

user-levels didn't really work, one had to enable the higher levels to
make common changes. (This couldn't be solved just by moving options
around.)

|  - removal of viewports.

they're not removed, just hidden from view. You can do:

(setq viewport-dimensions '(6 . 1))
(setq customize-command-classes '(default viewport))

to set your desktop to 6x1 and put the viewport commands back into the
bindings panel.

(though I may change customize-command-classes to something shorter)

	John