On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Havoc Pennington <[email protected]> wrote: > "other window managers with gnome-shell" doesn't even make sense > technically. the WM is entangled with the shell, which is the whole > point, because it lets you do more complex things and have smooth > graphics.
I know that. The discussion that was talking place was about the fact that users cannot use other window managers than mutter and gnome-shell at the same time because of the way gnome-shell is implemented. I was merely putting the existing discussion on another thread :) > > what you could have instead could be: > > * have a well-defined interface to replace the entire shell, sort of > "EWMH plus more stuff." of course this is harder than writing a > regular WM since now you have the equivalent of the panel and the > compositor in there too. The "fallback mode" with gnome-panel and > metacity is essentially this. btw this is kind of back-to-the-future; > WMs such as WindowMaker and fvwm2 had their own "panel" etc. i.e. a > window manager used to be a whole desktop shell, as gnome-shell is, > instead of purely the window decorations. > > * allow extensions to the shell that change how the window management works > > Havoc > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
