Re: How do I switch to Sawfish??

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le lun 02/09/2002 à 07:08, Dave Bordoley a écrit :
> On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 00:48, David A. Bartmess wrote:
> > 
> > Not to ruffle feathers or flame (or get flamed) but I don't consider a
> > release complete unless it A) satisfies ALL the usages that came in the
> > previous release, or B) is missing usages from the previous release
> > because something better came along.
> > 
> Well this is the difference between a community release and a distro
> release. To be honest, I agree alot of minute stuff is missing from
> community gnome2 release, but the main advantage of releasing it was the
> freezing of the libraries so that other 3rd party apps could begin
> development of gnome2 based apps without having to worry about changing
> API and ABI. In gnome 2.2 the community is planning on addressing the
> more user visible features.
> 
> I haven't used mandrake 9 so I can't really comment on it, but redhat
> has done an excellent job adding those finer touches to their upcoming
> distro (eg. they added window manager theming). For this specific
> example, adding window manager theming to the theme capplet was not
> possible due to the fact that sawfish was and is still is the default
> window manager of the gnome2 community release. (In 2.2 metacity will
> replace it and we'll get all those goodies that come with it) Mandrake
> as I understand it is using metacity which is great, but it was their
> responsibility to add the missing features that this change caused.

These supposed "missing" features are also in Mandrake packages of GNOME
control center, since I grabbed RH patches for GNOME control center..

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Frederic Crozat
MandrakeSoft