On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Nathan Grass wrote:
> > a friend and i were concidering creating our own window manager
> > and we were wondering if anyone knows any good books/webpages on the
> > subject.
>
> With Gnome and KDE out there in 1.0 versions why would you want to start on that
> yourself?
>
> Both environments allow for a lot of customization and you could create a new
> desktop look and feel by changing some of the existing code. You could add new
> widgets (panels, buttons, whatever) that can be added (or patched) to a widely
> distributed system that is already out there.
>
> That's just what I would do if I wanted to make a big impact on how my window
> manager worked...
>
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well...
actually we were thinking of doing this as a project for college.
we have to take a class in which we do some kind of software developing
and we both are very much into linux. the teacher is also very into linux
and is willing to help us out on it. so you want to know why we want to
do it. Answer: because we can, and beecause it would be fun.
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