--- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Educate me: what's the difference?
A Desktop Environment provides a full framework of integrated applications (such as a file manager, office applications, etc.) that all share the same theme. Often common options applied to one program, will affect the other components, because they're related. A Window Manager, on the other hand, does just that -- it manages windows. It doesn't dictate a file manager -- if you want one, you can use one. There's no interoperability or common functions shared between programs, like there is with DEs. It certainly provides a great deal more flexibility. So in that way, WMs are much faster, and most WMs are damn good at managing the windows mapped to them. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net "<shrug> We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :)" -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
