RE: gnome compliant window managers

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

Well, the wm selector capplet most of the way written...

How about having it check in the users home directory for a ~/.wm or some
file that contains
"enlightenment" or "windowmaker" or "whatever" and start it.

if the file does not exist have the wm selector window pop up. That way,
when someone first sets up gnome he/she will be prompted for what window
manager he/she wants to use.

Then gnome is not tied to any window manager :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Fulbright [SMTP:msf@redhat.com]
> Sent:	Monday, March 22, 1999 8:34 AM
> To:	Maciej Stachowiak
> Subject:	Re: gnome compliant window managers 
> 
> 
> If the main problem we are discussing here is that the donated RPMS I
> build for ftp.gnome.org require enlightenment by default, we can fix that
> problem by removing the requirement. I'm not sure that is what we want to
> do however (read below).
> 
> The requirement will remain in the Starbuck release and next release of
> the distribution because of our decision to use Enlightenment by default.
> But I agree there is no reason to force people who are trying out GNOME
> from the RPMS on ftp.gnome.org to have to use Enlightenment.
> 
> However, since users of all backgrounds are trying out the GNOME RPMS for
> the first time, I think it wise to bundle a window manager that will
> actually work properly with the pager/etc with the GNOME RPMS. Requiring
> the
> user to install said WM will insure they get it up and running. Remember,
> these people may not even know what a window manager is.  Starting GNOME
> w/o
> a window manager is a BAD thing, especially for new users who will not
> know how to start one from a command line.
> 
> I'm open to other technical solutions, but at the moment I think the
> benefits from requiring Enlightenment far outwiegh the 3.6 meg of
> disk space it uses ( $0.10 US dollars at current HD prices :)
> 
> The GNOME user's guide that we've written at RHAD mentions exactly how to
> change the window manager:
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/users-guide/gccdesktop.html#GCCWM
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Fulbright
> drmike@redhat.com
> Director - Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
> 
> 
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