Re: metacity, vte

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 14:10, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> Personally I think the time for a switch has come. Especially since 
> both Red Hat and Sun has commited to VTE I guess the remaining bugs and
> performance issues will be ironed out before GNOME 2.2
> As for Metacity I think we should switch, but will however use this
> opportunity (and I promise to never mention it again) to say that
> I really think it would be natural for us to offer a wm chooser capplet 
> so people can migrate at their own leisure and go back if they so prefer
> without having to know things like 'killall sawfish; metacity &'  and
> save session.

With metacity, I agree it should be made the WM of choice.  It's
configuration needs to be made easier, and integrated cleanly with the
rest of GNOME (for example, Metacity themes shoul dbe configurable
alongside GTK themes, Metacity title font configured in the fonts
dialog, etc).  It should look like an integrated desktop to the users,
who don't need to know or even care about the different between X,
window-managers, and desktops.

Becaue of that, I'm against a WM chooser capplet.  So far as easy
migration - perhaps on login if metacity is not running, a one-time
dialog to "Switch to Metacity" could be displayed?  (Saying 'Metacity'
and 'Sawfish' may be confusing to users, who may not know what those
are).  More advanced users can use more advanced means to change their
WM (i.e., gconf and/or terminal commands).

> 
> Christian
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 20:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > George Farris <george gmsys com> writes: 
> > > I hope this is the type of feedback you had in mind.
> > 
> > I was thinking a bit higher-level - if we want to make a decision, I
> > don't think hashing out each point of WM behavior individually will
> > work.
> > 
> > Havoc
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