Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2007-03-14 12:10:56, schrieb Christof Biebricher: Sure it is still in the SuSE distro. I am positive that it will remain. I have the impression that KDE is used more in the private sector. People working with the computer use rarely KDE; it gobbles up too much resources. SuSE

[OT] NFS (was Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...)

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:48:30PM +, seventh guardian wrote: Or it should, if the sysadmins weren't so dumb (window$ fans..) that the computer freezes from time to time due to nfs connectivity problems. They can really get unusable, specially under heavy network load, so I finally

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-13 15:16:22, schrieb Dedeco: Hello, I know anyone can install FVWM if they want, but it seems like it is not shipped with many popular distros. In many places I use computers (linux), I have the option to choose wich WM I can use, but unfortunatelly the only distro I had it

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-14 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:47:12 -0300 Dedeco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas, I think Fvwm-themes could be always together with Fvwm. A newbie has too much dificulty do strip interest parts of fvwm-themes. I tried to do it once and I couldn't. Since most screen-shots you present on

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-14 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Dominique Michel wrote: unfortunatelly the only distro I had it was SuSE. With commercial distributions, it is more complicated. As example Suse is very involved in kde development and it can be a political choice to not provide a decent fvwm version anymore. That

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-14 Thread Hans Voss
On 3/14/07, Christof Biebricher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: Are you saying that recent SuSE's do not have fvwm any more ? My SuSE 9.2 had one which was satisfactory for me to customize. If 10.x does not have it, it's one more reason not to upgrade

FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Dedeco
Hello, I know anyone can install FVWM if they want, but it seems like it is not shipped with many popular distros. In many places I use computers (linux), I have the option to choose wich WM I can use, but unfortunatelly the only distro I had it was SuSE. Is there any effort being made to

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Ost
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 15:16 -0300, Dedeco wrote: Hello, I know anyone can install FVWM if they want, but it seems like it is not shipped with many popular distros. In many places I use computers (linux), I have the option to choose wich WM I can use, but unfortunatelly the only distro

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:15:48PM -0500, Dan Ost wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 15:16 -0300, Dedeco wrote: Hello, I know anyone can install FVWM if they want, but it seems like it is not shipped with many popular distros. In many places I use computers (linux), I have the option to

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread fREW
I think that the best way to have that happen would be for someone to make a nice default theme. I think redhat used to include fvwm AND it was the default, but the theme that it came with was so terrible that everyone assume that's what fvwm had to look like. -fREW On 3/13/07, Dedeco [EMAIL

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:46:46PM -0500, fREW wrote: I think that the best way to have that happen would be for someone to make a nice default theme. I think redhat used to include fvwm AND it was the default, but the theme that it came with was so terrible that everyone assume that's what

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:46:46 -0500, fREW [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I think that the best way to have that happen would be for someone to make a nice default theme. I think redhat used to include fvwm AND it was the default, but the theme that it came with was so terrible that everyone

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Dedeco
One can easily install it to $HOME in those rare cases the sysadmin refuses to install it globally. Think about QUOTA spaces. Not the best, IMO.

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread Dedeco
Thomas, I think Fvwm-themes could be always together with Fvwm. A newbie has too much dificulty do strip interest parts of fvwm-themes. I tried to do it once and I couldn't. Since most screen-shots you present on fvwm.org make use of it, it almost doesn't make sense. But I don't want to

Re: FVWM: FVWM should be shipped with...

2007-03-13 Thread seventh guardian
On 3/13/07, Dedeco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One can easily install it to $HOME in those rare cases the sysadmin refuses to install it globally. Think about QUOTA spaces. Not the best, IMO. I personally have fvwm-cvs along with several other apps installed in my 50M quota at the university.