Re: GNOME on Ice

[Bruce Stephens <bruce cenderis demon co uk>]

Kevin Atkinson <kevinatk@home.com> writes:

> Here is a nice article on using the IceWM with GNOME:
>   http://www.linuxpower.com/display_item.phtml?id=140
> 
> Truefully I don't know why you gnome and RedHat folks like that slow
> Enlightenment so much.

We installed RedHat 6.0 on an obsolete PC at work (a P90 with 48M RAM,
so quite a bit of memory, but still seriously slow by today's
standards).  And it seemed fine.  Changing Enlightenment themes is
seriously slow, and launching apps is slower than I'd like, but
overall it's pretty usable.

Icewm (nice though it is), doesn't seem portable enough to be the
standard GNOME WM, IMHO.  Last time I tried compiling it on a Solaris
2.5.1 box I just couldn't get it to work; perhaps this has improved
more recently, I haven't looked.  (My vote would be for Window Maker,
although sawmill seems to be shaping up nicely.  It would be cool to
have a nice small programmable window manager (anybody remember
GWM?).)