Re: Window Managers [was: Control Center Plus - gone?]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Trevor Curtis <tcurtis somaradio ca> writes: 
> What is wrong with the term Window Manager? What is a better term for
> it?

There's no need for a term; it's just an implementation detail. Try to
find any term for this on any other operating system. No one cares
that a process exists that provides window frames.

> Another point I would like to make is that I think the "choose a window
> manager" functionality shouldn't be hidden. I know many (hackers, and
> non-hackers) that change their Window Managers within gnome. I can
> understand that this _may_ be confusing perhaps to new users, so perhaps
> it has a place in "advanced settings" or something similiar? I'm just
> not sure why this functionality needs to be hidden.

It's definitely confusing to new users. They don't know what a WM is,
why they would want to change it, and in fact even if they knew those
things they would not be interested in changing the WM because there
is no real point in doing so. It's something that should Just Work.

Havoc