Re: Fwd: Draft 1

[Nathan Clemons <nathan windsofstorm net>]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Michael Rogers wrote:

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>
> I have reservations about using two applications (pager and window
> manager) to do the same job. A large part of the current spec seems to
> exist to help the Gnome pager communicate with window managers, many of
> which provide pagers of their own, or alternative methods which work
> just as well. Wouldn't it be easier to just abandon the Gnome pager, and
> let the window manager manage the windows? Any window managers which
> wanted to include a panel applet for switching tasks could do so. I
> don't know what the situation is with KDE/XFCE, of course.
> 
> 
> Michael Rogers
> 

Two immediate reasons that I can think of are a.) for window managers that
do not have pagers. BlackBox for example has multiple workspaces but the
method to shift from one to another is via a menu. The other reason, b.)
is to provide a standard method of shifting irregardless of whichever
window manager you are using.

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