Am Sonntag, 24. April 2016 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 24. April 2016 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> > > > One more thing: I think this whole wm/de thing is a useless
> > > > distinction that never should have been made.
> > > 
> > > The point at which I consider that it's no longer a window manager is 
> > > when it starts to interfere with the conventions X set up.  For 
> > > example, when X's cut and paste stops working and you never know which 
> > > cut-and-paste mechanism to use when copying from one window to another.
> > > 
> > > -- hendrik
> > 
> > That would make TDE a window manager :-)
> 
> Or at least not clearly not a window manager.
> 
> -- hendrik

Which leads to the interesting point that "modern" DEs fail miserably on the 
"desktop"-element.

Nik



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