Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:29, Christian Marillat wrote:
> I disagree with that. Users already don't know how to setup the default > x-window manager, and now you want to introduce an new > update-alternative... > Well, changing the alternatives is really only for advanced users. We > should advise users to use the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable. Setting an environment variable under Gnome is for advanced users too. Maybe we can wrote an capplet for that ? > I think the best choice is to increase the value to 30 or 40 if a > window manager complies with the Window Manager Specification Project > and keep only one alternative for window manager. > Ok, I had thought that the maximum priority was 50, but it seems sawfish > is already 70, so I guess that works. The maximum is 70 for complient freedesktop window manager (See policy 12.8.4) The priority for metacity is actually 40 > All I really care about is that a user installing the "x-window-system" > and "desktop" tasks doesn't have GNOME start up with twm. > It looks like a priority increase of 40 would work. Do you want to put > together a patch? I that case, yes. Christian
