Well, this seems like the ideal opportunity for me to advertise my ignorance:
What exactly is the difference between a window manager and a desktop environment? Thanx. BTW, I second the opinion re: Windowmaker. It's intuitive and easy to use, it looks funky (and probably will look funkier when I get drivers for my video card :) and is really quite impressive... Brad wrote: > > 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? > ;) > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- -------------- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------- Why use a keyboard layout deliberately designed to be slow and awkward? For a faster, more comfortable and free layout try Dvorak. http://members.xoom.com/Aggie97/DVORAK.HTML for more information. http://www.dvorakint.org/ for lotsa links.
