Re: Window Manager
- From: Ian McKellar <yakk-gnome-list yakk net au>
- To: Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu>
- Cc: "Stapley, Peter J." <pstapley taz sdsmt edu>, "'gnome-list gnome org'" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Window Manager
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 01:45:57 +0800
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:26:35AM +0300, Ali Abdin wrote:
> I'm in the same position kind of - I decided I wanna try to work with
> sawmill - supposedly its lightweight, I'm also gonna download a few
> themes for it to play with - and those are /TINY/ size (40K themes as
> opposed to Enlightenment's multi-MB themes). Also, I like the idea of
> extensibility through LISP :) WindowMaker is cool, although not as light
> as sawmill, and not as heavy as enlightenment (I don't like in-betweens)
> - They're all good - in fact if you want you can just install all of them
> and choose what you want, when you want it from the control-panel :)
Sawmill in a lot of ways shows us how good window managers can be. For a theme
of comparable complexity Sawmill seems to fly comared to E - even though its
mostly written in LISP.
Ian
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