Re: gnome compliant window managers

["Bob Smith" <rwsmith cnw com>]

Kevin Fox wrote:

>The best solution (In my own opinion) is to have the window manger capplet
>check to see if a window manager is defined and if not prompt the user for
>his/her choice of default wm on startup.
>
>so,
>joe bob installs gnome.
>joe runs gnome for the first time
>he gets a nice pritty list of all window managers installed on his box so
he
>can choose which wm he likes
>
>it would be minor (I think) to reprogram the wm capplet to do this. most of
>the code is already there
>
Speaking largely from the notional 'joe bob''s perspective (i.e. gnew to
Gnome, and just getting the hang of Linux) ,  _anything_  which reduces the
slope of the seemingly vertical learning curve would be as water in the
desert.  I seem to be spending all my time either re-compiling or searching
the literature to find out why the last compile didn't.
This isn't meant to be a flame, more a wistful observation

Bob   rwsmith@cnw.com