Re: Cursors -> window managers

["FALLON,DAVID JOSEPH" <dfallon ucla edu>]

Better yet, just standardize on one windowmanager, and use it's format as
the "meta" format that all others need to handle. This reluctance to drop
other window managers is frankly fairly ridiculous... I'm not advocating
"locking" users into one window manager, but simply to stop killing gnome
to support "every" window manager. Work closely with one window manager
(sawmill despite it's lisp preference being my recomendation), and any
other window manager that wants to work with gnome needs to emulate the
standard window manager. The *vast* majority of users are *not* serviced
by having 5 different window manager options. They need one good one.

My apologies if I spark a flame war, but gnome (in general) has been
avoiding this issue for a while, and it's something that needs to be dealt
with.

> > On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
> > > If window manager themes were to be included, there would have to be a standard
> > > window manager, which is a touchy subject :)
> > >
> > 
> > The idea is that you could include themes for several different WM's in
> > your themeball. For example you can make Sawmill and E themes using the
> > same pixmaps.
> > 
> > > I should have time for at least the next couple of months (until my honours
> > > project starts getting more urgent), so I volunteer if no-one else wants to do
> > > it.
> > >
> > 
> > You win! ;-) The thing to do is probably to think about how the themeballs
> > would be implemented and then post a plan for comments. After duly
> > absorbing/ignoring comments for a week or so, write up the code.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> 	The problem here is that this makes the theme-ball bigger and bigger. 
> 
> 	There is a solution, gnome should create a meta-WM-theme that each
> gnome-aware WM would have a translator from the gnome-wm-theme to the
> native theme. This is the way I would do it. Any thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> "You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland,
> and I'll show you how deep the rabit hole goes", Morpheus.
>  
> []'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
> 
> 
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