Oooo, dangerous ground... Hopefully this doesn't spark a holy war ;) On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several > handy dock apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop > environment. Also, Windowmaker looks good! So different from MS, and yet > very easy to configure and use. i like it too, none of the other window managers i've tried have felt right. > Then I see that the big hype these days is KDE and Gnome. I have tried them > both and felt I was taking one step back towards what I left. I just do not > undetstand why the Linux community are working against a wm "standard" that is > not based on what seems truly unique and well layed out: The nextish look. Supposedly, you can use any window manager (read: WindowMaker) with these desktop environments. i haven't actually tried it, never felt the need to. > Instead I am again presented with the taskbar and popup menus that hasn't > really changed for years. Is this to conquer new users, or is it becuase Linux > users "secretly" have missed the look and feel of MS Windows? My guess is "new users"... Although there certainly are some out there that like the windows-style menus. > And in Debian Windowmaker is presented as: "Yet another Windowmanager" when it > is actually GNOME and KDE that to me feels and looks like "yet another..." File a bug report, saying the description doesn't do the package justice? ;)
