Re: E and GNOME not the right way?

[Paul Warren <pdw ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Ali Abdin wrote:

> 2.) Secondly, I think somebody writing a GNOME-specific window manager
> would be a great thing for the GNOME project. Basically, somebody to code a
> window manager that will 'fit' into the GNOME enviroment perfectly. This
> doesn't mean somebody HAS to use - hell, I don't think it should be
> included in gnome-core or gnome-libs (make it gnome-wm). A person can
> CHOOSE to use it, or to choose anything else. It seems at the moment that
> every WM has its own agenda, and with the lack of a clear GNOME WM
> specification (hopefully the WM-spec list will rectify this - anyone know a
> ballpark figure on this? (years, months, weeks?)) every WM has its own
> agenda and own features that could potentially clash with GNOME.

Dedicated Gnome WMs (at least two of them) are in the pipeline, and you
will be pleased to hear that their authors are on the wm-spec list, so as
soon as it it is decided what the new spec will be, they'll support it.

I think the timescale for the new spec is a small number of months.

Paul