RE: themes bust it up...

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

Brennan,

This is mostly off-topic since this is a gnome list not a
wm list. But since many newbies (not calling you one) have trouble
distinguishing between gnome and wm it does come up. So the question
of what works best with gnome is somewhat relevant but what 
wm is best is not relevant. That being said here's my 2 cents 
(which I will try to keep gnome related), I hope after this that 
this threads dies..

Someone recently called sawmill the closest thing to an offical GNOME
wm. This is because it was designed for GNOME and doesn't try
to do things GNOME already does like set the background pic. If
you use Enlightenment for instance both GNOME and E try to set it and
I forget which one wins but its really confusing to newbies. I personnally
switch to sawmill and haven't really noticed a difference except that
my machine is noticable faster. Therefore sawmill is the best fit and the
others have some degree of feature overlap. Amazingly only one person
complained when Sawmill was called the closest thing to a GNOME wm. 

This all depends on what is important to you. This list given was very
reasonable and I beleive in popularity sawmill and E are at the top. So
unless you have special needs I suggest your try those two first.



> 
> I do not mean to incite a riot, but would like to get an idea of what
> people enjoy using.  I have worked with different window 
> managers in the
> past and know when even with one window manager there are a million
> options.  Enlightenment can be configured to do just about 
> anything and so
> can many others, but I have seen very few other people 
> running X Windows
> in person.
> 
> When I do see screen shots they look amazing and I wonder how 
> I could get
> all those cool things running on my computer.  I basically 
> need a heads up
> on all the useful features of each variation that people happen to be
> using so that I can figure what I like best.
> 
> As far as religion, I was raised Catholic but think Buddhism is really
> cool.  But as in religion and window managers, to each his own.
> 
>:)
> 
> Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin
> projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com
> 
> fortune:
> Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more
> than the estimate the job will cost.
> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > * Brennan W Stehling (brennan@offwhite.net) wrote:
> > > I tried some themese for enlightenment that I downloaded 
> from themes.org
> > > and it killed me.  Is that common?
> > 
> > You may have tried to use 0.15.x themes with 0.16.x. A 
> common mistake,
> > and some naughty theme authors mislabel their themes as 0.16
> > compliant. Just edit ~/.enlightenment/user_theme.cfg to fix.
> > 
> > > The busted themes support is the main reason I am looking 
> at other window
> > > managers than the default enllightenment for gnome.  
> Blackbox seems to
> > > stay out of the way while I can rely on the gnome panel 
> to manage and
> > > start all applications.
> > > 
> > > Can anyone share their ideal window manager setup with 
> the list?  I mean
> > > one that you are or have used in the past.  I wnt to use 
> one that is
> > > simple and does not allow the window manager to interfere 
> with gnome.  I
> > > also want decent themes support.
> > 
> > Not a good question to ask. It's very much like asking what football
> > team is best, or what religion is nice :) You'll likely:
> > 
> > o Get 15 different answers from a hundred different people
> > o Get different descriptions of the same thing from 
> different people.
> > o Receive wildly conflicting and often spurious answers 
> from everyone.
> > o Provoke normally harmless and peaceful individuals into
> >   emotion-ridden outbursts and violence
> > o Get nowhere fast =)
> > 
> > I repeat my earlier statement, spend a few days with each, 
> and choose
> > whichever suits you best. GNOME-compliant themeable choices include:
> > 
> > Enlightenment
> > Sawmill
> > Black Box
> > IceWM
> > Window maker
> > Afterstep (latest version is mostly compliant afaik)
> > 
> > In no particular order. I may have missed some.
> > 
> > Tom.
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