Re: RH6.0 Gnewbie usability questions

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:45:34PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> E is relatively slow (but fast for what it does), kwm is relatively fast

I'm not totally convinced that E is fast in everything that it does...
Moving around windows in E is a lot slower than in other window managers,
and as far as I can see, moving around windows should only be a matter
of copying around some rectangular windows (ok, some themes for E
give non-rectangular windows). Furthermore, E keeps a copy of what's
underneath a window, which should speed up move operations even more.
At least, that's how I see it... it seems E doesn't agree.

Could other people that don't agree with this enlighten me? :)

> 
> I believe the Gnome Control Center has a window manager selector applet.
> Otherwise, just start the wm you want, and gnome-session should catch on
> and restore it next time (in theory...)

It has, but it has made my windows disappear more than once.
I saw mentioned somewhere that only the window manager knows where to
place a window. It seems that if you switch window manager on the fly,
you get exactly that: windows on non-existing desktop, or something
like that.

> 
> > 5.  Again on window managers:  Under both KDE and Win32, when I maximise a
> > window, it does not resize to the entire screen, but it respects any existing
> > open panels (KDE's KPanel and taskbar, Win32's Start Bar and Office Toolbar)
> > and resizes only to the visible desktop area that is not occupied by panels. 
> > This is *good*, and this is what I want GNOME to do. 
> > 

Icewm handles this well. But for some reason, icewm will never let you move
a window over a panel located at the top of the screen, while it does allow
windows to move over panels at other locations (but not without a slight
resistance, which is good).

Ronald