Re: Default WM theme settings

[Andrew Coulam <aigiskos yahoo com>]

That "someone" is Havoc, and I imagine he's being a
bit modest in his description of Metacity, perhaps so
that people do not expect too much of it yet.  It is
clear that Metacity is not ready to be the default
window manager for GNOME 2.0, but maybe by GNOME 2.2
we can reevaluate.
--- Matt Tucker <tuck whistlingfish net> wrote:
> -- John Kodis <kodis jagunet com> spake thusly:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:15:02AM -0800, Seth
> Nickell wrote:
> > 
> >> ... we the future potential for a window manager
> + theme combo that
> >> is a lot better, ...
> > 
> > I assume that you're refering to Metacity being a
> lot better than
> > Sawfish.  If so, in what way is Sawfish deficient
> or is Metacity much
> > better?  Just curious, I have trouble keeping up
> with all the new
> > window managers that are available.
> 
> I decided to do a bit of research on Metacity, and
> found the following
> description on the Gnome Apps site:
> 
>     Metacity is a window manager based on GTK+ 2.0 I
> am hacking
>     on for fun. It uses GTK to draw frames and Pango
> to render
>     nice Unicode window titles. It``s not a
> particularly good
>     window manager in general, and not a
> particularly serious
>     project. But I use it myself, so it can be used,
> if you``re
>     sufficiently masochistic. Read the README for
> more
>     information. Please, do not send me any mail or
> complain
>     about anything until you read the README from
> the
>     tarball. It``s packed with FAQs, caveats, and
> docs. So your
>     sequence of steps are a) download tarball b)
> read the README
>     c) try to compile and/or use - do not reverse b)
> and c) ;-)
> 
>     Homepage URL:
> http://people.redhat.com/~hp/metacity/
> 
> The homepage is nothing more than a directory
> listing of tar.gz/rpm's.
> Based on that description, I completely fail to
> understand why anyone
> would think this thing might be replacing Sawfish at
> any point, much
> less in the near future. Give up a cleanly written,
> elegant, easily
> configurable piece of software for a hack someone
> threw together and
> doesn't want to support? Doesn't make any sense.
> 
> It looks like the only advantage Metacity has over
> Sawfish is that it
> supports Unicode for window titles. Using GTK to
> draw frames has got to
> be easily duplicable in Sawfish, if that's desired.
> 

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