Hi there again,

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 18:08, Florian Müllner
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Metacity is the default window manager of the GNOME project. It
> also decorates windows(*), but this functionality is inseparable from
> the window management.
>

Aha?


> Note that gtk-window-decorator
> is developed by the compiz (fusion?) project and has no ties to GNOME in
> general or the metacity project in particular.
>

I'm actually so surprised to hear this, i'll read up on it immediately!
Thanks for being very helpful, this is indeed a great mess, especially in
Ubuntu, just take a look at all the noise in the GConf registry with Compiz
and Metacity side by side.


> (*)  just like probably every window manager on earth except compiz
> (**) bluntly put: gtk-window-decorator is a program which can read
>     another program's file format, just like open office understands
>     Word documents
>
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