Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

[Paul Seelig <pseelig mail Uni-Mainz de>]

jlwallen@iglou.com (jack wallen, jr) writes:

> i have to agree here!  the ability to choose which window manager i wanted
> was a large deciding factor for me choosing Gnome.  I feel that the
> ability to switch window managers at the drop of a hat (ala Gnome) make
> Gnome that much more user friendly and configurable than KDE.  
>
This is missing the fact that KDE's windowmanager can be exchanged by
other ones too (with WindowMaker being one of the most popular).  One
big plus in favor of ease of setting up and use KDE is that a well
integrated window manager does exist right from the start making the
issue of choosing the right window manager a pure non-brainer.

GNOME's modularized approach surely is a good thing for hackers and
computerliterate people, but definitely not for people who don't want
to care about what to choose - like the majority of my friends.  There
are lot's of people out there who don't really care about computers
but are forced to work with them on a daily basis.  I'd rather like to
see a default window manager for GNOME *without* taking away the
window manager independency like KDE currently does.  This doesn't
necessarily mean to implement a new one (it would IMHO be really silly
to program yet another window manager...) but rather to *reuse* an
already existing one (be it icewm, WMaker, or whatever).

Me?  I'm using exclusively the most recent WindowMaker, but compiled
with support for *both* GNOME and KDE.  I don't care using a complete
GNOME or KDE desktop due to the hefty RAM requirements and prefer
being able to use single *applications* from either with my really
slim window manager. ;-)
                                    Cheers, P. *8^)

PS: WindowMaker is the official GNU window manager BTW.
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