Re: Window Manager configuration utilities

[Matthias Ettrich <ettrich troll no>]

On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, Paul Warren wrote:
> Something that came up on gnome-list a little while ago was the need to
> standardise window manager configuration utilities.  In a truly
> integrated desktop environment, you should be able to change window
> manager options such as focus policy, window cycling behaviour, or
> whatever the particular wm chooses to make optional by clicking on the
> menu, going to settings and hitting window manager (or similar) not by
> hunting around trying to find that particular window manager's
> configuration utility, written usings Any Old Toolkit (tm).

What's the point in having different window managers then? IMO a common
configuration tool goes far over the scope and the goal of this standarization
effort. 

Matthias