RE: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Ease of installation should be handled by the distribution. We don't want to
loose functionality for ease of installation for people who don't have a
good distribution.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Seelig [mailto:pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 8:24 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org; jlwallen@iglou.com
> Subject: Re: GNOME Usability Improvements - Fix the window manager!
> 
> 
> 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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