John Hasler <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: >> I must say, I'd welcome a system where I can get straight to a browser >> without having to go through the excessiveness of X-Windows and a typical >> window-manager like KDE or GNOME.
> While X is currently necessary desktop environments[1] such as KDE and > Gnome certainly are not. Neither is a window manager, though it is > convenient. > [1] KDE and Gnome are _not_ window managers. :-) OH YES THEY ARE!!! They perform the function that ratpoison or fvwm do, don't they? Or do you mean that I could run ratpoison as window manager, then start GNOME or KDE "I'm not a window manager" in it? I've never been too clear about this. I've never come across any clear explanation, and never been interested enough actively to seek it out. > They also are not the only desktop environments. Should they not be called laptop environments now? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
