> Garrett D'Amore wrote: [...] > Right, I've used windowmaker in the past. The point > is that we want a > simple window manager, that adheres to the principle > of least surprise. > A motif look and feel, and window behavior, is most > likely, IMO, to fit > that need (primarily because of its "closeness" in > L&F to Windows). For > that reason, I wouldn't choose a NeXT-ish window > manager like window maker. > > I would choose fvwm, blackbox, or xfce4 as my > choices. Frankly, for the > need I'm targetting, blackbox may well be the best > choice. Because it > is so simple, it is probably pretty immune to the > problems that other > desktop environments have. > > I am not sure how the decision of _which_ window > manger should be made, > but I'm encouraged by the notion that others see the > need for a light > replacement for gnome for use with by the system > admin/root user. > > (Possibly the basic window manager from gnome would > work too, as long as > we only start up the window manager and not all the > other gobbeldy-gook > associated with gnome. I haven't looked lately, so I > have no idea how > tightly integrated the window manager in gnome is to > the rest of the > desktop.) > > I hope that we can identify the need, choose one, and > integrate it > without devolving into a bikeshed about window > managers. My point is > to provide a reasonable version for use with > suninstall, system admin > tasks, and such. Not to provide a replacement > desktop for end users. > (Hopefully that will forestall some of the > bikeshedding.)
Simple, lightweight, perhaps capable of a somewhat Motif-like look. One other thing: supports Extended Window Manager Hints, so that various apps will work as expected. As part of "simple", I'd take that to also mean minimal dependencies in terms of libs, separate freeware with its own development cycles, etc. This message posted from opensolaris.org
