On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:31:56AM -0400, dave feustel wrote: > > My guess is that it's for some GUI stuff or something... > > Does this behaviour really surprise you? > > Actually it does, that's why I posted the question which reflects > my (possibly naive) astonishment at some of the things I am > finding out about kde and X-windows.
Window managers such as KDE or Gnome try hard to be all things to all people. They (and their applets/panel apps/whatever) get their fingers into every part of the system in order to provide the end user with complete configuration and status information. There are users with a need for a GUI interface to everything. Personally, I don't like that approach. > > If it does, you are running a wrong > > window manager (hint: KDE is not in src/, but in ports/ on OpenBSD). > > Which window manager(s) do you recommend? I'll try it(them). The choice of window managers is very subjective. Recommendations depend a lot on the needs and experiences of the end user. FYI, I've been using Ion or Ratpoison. If you want something like KDE then they're *not* going to make you happy. In the past I liked WindowMaker. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
