Re: GTK window manager

["Moses O. McKnight" <moses texoma net>]

Hi,

Why not just help out with the gtkwm
<http://www.accesscom.com/~edem/andrew/gtkwm/index.html> instead of making a
different one?  Is there something bad wrong with what he's doing or do y'all
just not know about it?

Moses

PS:  Why don't the gnome mailing lists set the 'reply-to' of each mail to the
list address like most mailing lists do?  It's kind of a nuisance to have to
manually change the address instead of just being able to hit reply.

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On 12 May 1999 11:47:54 -0400, Richard Hult <rhult@hem2.passagen.se> wrote:
> >
> >> A small, quick window manager heavily based on GNOME.
> >>
> >> IceWM seems like a good window manager, that almost
> >> fullfill these wishes, so why don't we base the GTK wm
> >> on this.
> >
> >I think this is a very good idea! IceWM is fast and small and has a lot of
> >gnome compliance. A few quirks, but nothing uncureable.
> 
> A good number of IceWM settings are hard-coded in at compile time
> (including key bindings & such), and it most likely duplicates a lot of
> functionality that is built into GNOME (e.g. gnome_config). You may be
> better off starting from scratch, using IceWM as a source of ideas and
> code snippets. You would have to change the design anyways for a Gtk-based
> WM. (Once upon a time I started writing such a beast - once you could drag
> around windows, it got boring rather quickly...)
> 
> -- Elliot