Chi-Ming Yang wrote:
>
> > I think the java-linux list is for technical issues about the port, but Chi-Ming
>Yang has raised a question which relates to philosophies of java and linux. Can
>there be a java window manager (Jwm) which will live on any platform and bypass the
>window managers?
>
> I thought this is java development for Linux. I will try other groups.
> I got few emails from geeks which did not show up here. They provided me many
>placese to find "decent" file explorers. I did find some of them I like.
>
> My ideal is to build better GUI for average person. For those who believe the
>advantage of Linux, but having difficulty to utilize Linux.
>
> From those responses that I got, I found there were people trying to do this. One
>example is at http://www.seul.org/. I will read more, and thanks for all responses.
>
I favour GNOME, as I have been using it's beta software for 4/5 months,
and it's already improved the way I work. SEUL looks very immature in
comparison. GNOME's being developed by many full-time/part-time and
volunteer developers (inc me), and is sponsored by RedHat. It also works
on non-Linux Unices. <http://www.gnome.org/>
_Everybody_ wants to make Linux (/Unix) a viable desktop alternative to
Windows, for very obvious reasons (e.g. Windows sucks). If everyone
starts their own project to provide a user-friendly front-end to do
this, so much effort is wasted and/or duplicated. If everyone
collaborated on one project, it would reach fruition much faster, and we
would see the demise of Windows much quicker.
However, GUIs for Linux isn't the subject of this list, unless someone
is planning on writing one in Java, in which case I'd ask 'Why?'
--
Ross
