Re: GTK window manager

[Kenneth Christíqua <kenneth ripen dk>]

There's something I don't understand here:

>Gtkwm will provide an interface to the window manager with ORBit. This will
>allow custom modules to communicate with the window manager. Standard 
>modules will be provided: GtkwmDesktop will be a panel module that switches 
>desktops and keeps track of backgrounds and such, GtkwmTaskBar will also
>be a panel module that shows the current running applications, GtkwmIcons 
>will provide fvwm style floating icons for iconified windows. 

If the windowmanager is gnome compliant, you can just use the gnome-pager.
There's no need for a GtkwmDesktop or a GtkwmTaskBar/GtkwmIcons.

>The look of gtkwm can be drastically changed with the configuration settings. 
>Gtkwm was designed to imitate fvwm, KDE, and Window95. While it does this, 
>gtkwm can also create new looks. 

I think that this should be implimentet as one of the latest features, since the
idea with a small, quick, gtk wm, would somehow disappear if it supports 
theming like that. The only theming I think it should have, would be stuff like:

* color of border
* which buttons who should be on the border

Actually it should only be possible to change the things that you can change in 
windows.

Kenneth

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> Hi,
> 
> Why not just help out with the gtkwm
> <http://www.accesscom.com/~edem/andrew/gtkwm/index.html> instead of making a
> different one?  Is there something bad wrong with what he's doing or do y'all
> just not know about it?

Didn't knew. Think I heard about it once, but thought it was dead