Re: Desktop background

[Wandered Inn <esoteric denali atlnet com>]

Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> 
> > All configuration that is currently slit between WM and GNOME
> > should be handled by GNOME. The WM spec would have to hash out
> > all the details then the WM would have to get the information
> > from gnome (is that what's corba is for?).
> 
>         This issue has only been rehashed about a million times on the
> various Gnome mailing lists.
> 
>         It's interesting to note that, because of all the GNOME WM "Spec"
> features that are necessary, combined with the fact that most WMs try to
> create an entire desktop environment of their own, we now find ourselves
> in a position where we have a single WM that is the unofficial 'Gnome' WM
> (Sawmill) that is being designed around the Gnome requirements.
> 
>         Seems like it would have been much easier to do from the very
> beginning, if you ask me.

I disagree.  Gnome should work with various WMs.  BUT, the WM must
cooperate as well.  It will be a whole lot easier for Gnome to get
people to try it, if they don't have to change WM as well as get used to
Gnome.

So who is it that has deemed Sawmill the 'unofficial Gnome WM?' (I ask
as I'm about to TYAWM (try yet another window manager) (Sawmill, that
is).


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