Re: Package addition proposals

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Unless people have plans to distribute 100% pure GNOME distributions or
something...I don't see users having any route to complain. Surely
anybody competent enough to compile all of GNOME from source will find
it immediately obvious what is happening when their windows don't have
borders? Most mechanisms "normal" users have to get Sawfish
(distribution, RedCarpet, Eazel-installer, whatever) are going to
include Sawfish installation, no?

-Seth

Kevin Breit wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 23 January 2001 10:37 pm, you wrote:
> > From this viewpoint, it makes more sense to make sawfish part of the
> > extra apps release than part of the core GNOME 1.4 release.  I just
> > don't want window managers forced to emulate sawfish behaviour that is
> > not in the official spec to be considered a good GNOME window manager.
> I think that when you say "extra apps" you are meaning that it is not needed
> for the desktop to work properly.  For example, I don't NEED GnomeICU for
> Gnome to work correctly.  But IIRC, you do need a windowmanager to work
> correctly.  I agree that we should not show favortism or anything.  But I
> feel that if we exclude Sawfish, we may get a user here or there saying "The
> windows don't have borders.  How do I fix this?"
> Kevin Breit
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