Re: metacity, vte

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:38, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sander Vesik">
> 
> > > I would maintain that if you are an advanced enough user to configure
> > > and use Sawfish, even tho it will not be integrated into GNOME the way
> > > Metacity should (and hopefully will) be, you are also advanced enough to
> > > change your WM without using a capplet.
> > 
> > Of course, if you count the number of people asking on the gnome lists and
> > irc on how to change the window manager (and getting the usual answer
> > involving kill, set, start ...) you will realise that this is just plain
> > wrong.
> 
> Logging onto IRC or posting to GNOME mailing lists automatically brands
> users as "technically interested", if not "advanced" in my mind. It seems
> reasonable to assess their needs as part of a small percentage of our target
> market (in terms of usability and care-factor).
> 
> KDE have a --windowmanager switch to startkde, we could do something as
> simple as that. Most of this conversation is moot anyway, as c-c CVS has a
> switcher -> unless anyone thinks it's worth removing.

Gross.  At least make it some kind of optional package, so that people
who don't want to deploy cracked out broken configuration options to
their users can disable it easily enough (i.e., without having to
hand-modify 40 workstations).

Maybe we could have a control-center-l337-config module or something.

> 
> - Jeff
> 
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