Re: Cursors -> window managers

[bob cs csoft net]

I for one have had no problems having 5 different wm's installed. I LIKE
the choice. Each wm has its strength. I have seen no real reason to not to
continue to allow so many wm's. It is gnomes biggest strengths.

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, FALLON,DAVID JOSEPH wrote:

> Better yet, just standardize on one windowmanager, and use it's format as
> the "meta" format that all others need to handle. This reluctance to drop
> other window managers is frankly fairly ridiculous... I'm not advocating
> "locking" users into one window manager, but simply to stop killing gnome
> to support "every" window manager. Work closely with one window manager
> (sawmill despite it's lisp preference being my recomendation), and any
> other window manager that wants to work with gnome needs to emulate the
> standard window manager. The *vast* majority of users are *not* serviced
> by having 5 different window manager options. They need one good one.
> 
> My apologies if I spark a flame war, but gnome (in general) has been
> avoiding this issue for a while, and it's something that needs to be dealt
> with.
> 
> > > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> > > > If window manager themes were to be included, there would have to be a standard
> > > > window manager, which is a touchy subject :)
> > > >
> > > 
> > > The idea is that you could include themes for several different WM's in
> > > your themeball. For example you can make Sawmill and E themes using the
> > > same pixmaps.
> > > 
> > > > I should have time for at least the next couple of months (until my honours
> > > > project starts getting more urgent), so I volunteer if no-one else wants to do
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > You win! ;-) The thing to do is probably to think about how the themeballs
> > > would be implemented and then post a plan for comments. After duly
> > > absorbing/ignoring comments for a week or so, write up the code.
> > > 
> > > Havoc
> > 
> > 	The problem here is that this makes the theme-ball bigger and bigger. 
> > 
> > 	There is a solution, gnome should create a meta-WM-theme that each
> > gnome-aware WM would have a translator from the gnome-wm-theme to the
> > native theme. This is the way I would do it. Any thoughts?
> > 
> > -- 
> > "You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland,
> > and I'll show you how deep the rabit hole goes", Morpheus.
> >  
> > []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
> > 
> > 
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