Re: Panel GUI

[Jason Gilbert <jason scott net>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> I've been thinking of renaming it to "gnome" or "gnome-session".
> The idea behind the former is that if the session manager really is
> how Gnome should be started, then it should be named accordingly.
> Opinions?

I would agree w/ this assumption.  Actually, we would hope that people
would use the session manager facilities.  This way you force them to.

Another feature the session manager should include, assuming that it
starts the wm, is to allow for m4 or other preprocessing of the window
managers config file.
Xsession that comes w/ the redhat powercd has this feature and I really
like it since it allows for wm w/o m4 processing, like AfterStep, to
have their config file processed.  Definite bonus if you want to use
wmconfig that's included w/ redhat to have your programs menu
dynamically created on login.

jason

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