Re: Are these "troubles" due to RedHat 8 or Gnome 2 ?

[ZekeVarg <ZekeVarg linux se>]

fre 2002-10-11 klockan 16.27 skrev Alan:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> > I installed RH8 on a clean system and have some troubles. I have some 
> > config problems.  If these are due to the much discussed RedHat 
> > "improvements" and "simplifications", please let me know and I'll get 
> > Gnome some other way.
> > 
> > 1. How do you choose a Window Manager? That choice is gone from the 
> > config setup.
> 
> No normal user would ever want to do this, so there is no config option.
> The new philosophy for gnome2 is "less is more" where config options are
> concerned, and even though this is asked many times, there are no plans
> that I've heard of to make an option.  You are left with either running
> "killall metacity ; sawfish" (replace metacity/sawfish with your running
> and desired WM) or playing around in gconfd.  The killall method works
> great though, just don't forget to check the 'save session' when you log
> out.

???? That's not my opinion. I see the possibility to choose your wm of
your desire as one of the most importent features. So if this wont be an
option in gnome 2 I don't think I ever will upgrade from 1.4.