When I hear Desktop I think of my whole fvwm2 environment. Pop up one of three menus anywhere on the desktop at the click of a mouse button. A nice toolbar with things I need often. How about virtual desktops? I cannot think of working with less then 6 but I usually take the default of 16 and actively use 8 or 9.
Cliff Baeseman wrote:
The speed is not that big a issue. I am running a desktop written inWhat do you plan to put in your desktop? I like the things I mentioned earlier. I hate Start buttons that you have to chase to some location on the screen all the time. I like flexibility and configurability and I already tried and abandoned KDE.
jbuilder on linux rh6.0 P90 32 meg of ram my test machine It is just as fast
as gnome or even a little faster.
The thing is the desktop does not even do that much work the apps do all ofIs this just a file manager or is there more to it than that? Will it have its own system for launching its own flavor of application. If so I vote for desklets (TM) and want credit for the term :-)
the work. The desktop just looks cool and launches and configures apps.
Have you hammered these kinds of ideas into some sort of loose architecture document. Even loose notes would be interesting to see. Any screen shots to be available soon?
A very small job for the desktop.Dunno, but something like the appletviewer comes to mind.BTW how can I launch a applet in a frame window. ?
-- Tony Dean Linux: The choice of a GNU Generation!
