John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:34:14PM -0700:
[chop]
Unfortunately, KDE and GNOME are not just window managers.
They are not window managers at all, I thought ... they just /use/ window
managers. Has this changed?
KDE and GNOME are Desktop Environments, if I have my current terminology
correct. The window manager for KDE is kwin, and the one for GNOME is
configurable, but metacity by default.
You are technically correct - the best kind of correct [1]. But for the
average user (meaning none of us) there is no way to tell the
difference. Try to even explain a window manager vs a desktop
environment to a regular user, especially for one coming from a
alternate operating system where the concept doesn't even exist.
Gus
[1] Line stolen from an episode of Futurama
http://www.tv.com/futurama/how-hermes-requisitioned-his-groove-back/episode/1556/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;13
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