Guys and Gals, Squabbling over window managers is futile. Filling my mailbox day after day with this drivel is not appreciated.
There are a lot of people that have a different favorite for window managers such as OpenLook, Motif, Enlightenment, Next, Twm, Gnome, KDE, Fvwm, IceWm, etc. In the end all that matters is that we provide what the majority of user want. Starting a religious war about which window manager is best serves no purpose and has been done so many times in my careers that it isn't minutely humorous anymore. It just shows if you don't have any history in this industry, you are bound to repeat the mistake of the past over and over again. Bottom line is that we have to let the market dictate what they want to use, not shove anything down anyone's throat. X-windows was developed without specifying a window manager because they understood that this would be the one thing that would continually be modified. I'm sure there will be lots of Compix fans for those people that have machines that can handle it. If we want to keep it to a CD then we can use the Ubuntu/Kbuntu approach. This will please both Gnome/KDE camps to have a version special for them. For those that like others, they can install the missing WM via an install package via the net. I develop under Gnome. I do QT commercial development and I find that I'm always trying to resolve linkage problems between my app and my and KDE's installed QT libraries during development and test. In fact the company I work for dictates that our apps be statically linked with QT (and other libraries) in order to prevent a maintenance nightmare. Using Squish (from FrogLogic) to do QT testing also gets complicated when multiple QT libraries are installed as well. However, Gnome and KDE are too graphically intensive when working remotely, so we typically use Fvwm to do things like window captures remotely for documentation. Bottom line is that you can't please everybody if you say things as stupidly as "You must supply WM X because that's the best". That is never the case for all uses in the real world. Gary _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
