On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, John McCreesh wrote: > Yes, it's nice, once you find a decent font and switch off the > irritating animated icons, but editing the config files to add menu > entries, creating suitable icons etc is a real pain in the horse. Not > really something Jo user would be comfortable doing. > > The fact that it pretends to be Win9x but doesn't allow you to do some > elementary Win stuff like drag and drop a menu item onto the desktop is > a bit irritating. If it looked less like Win9x I could forgive it...
Hmm, stopping users from doing "elementary Win stuff" is EXACTLY what I want to do. For the types of users that I have, they have a specific job to do, and it doesn't include adding icons to their desktop, or items to their menus. That is why window managers like Icewm and Qvwm are so good. IMHO. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > John > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:30:46 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have done a little evaluation of qvwm, but I haven't tried out the > > audio features yet. > > > > It is neat and small. If you want to use it to change over from Win > > desktops, > > I really think it is the way to go. > > > > You have basically the same setup as Win95/98/NT, with a configurable > > desktop, a start button, a task bar with optional autohide, which can > > be placed > > (but not dragged) on each side of the viewscreen. > > > > It also has separate (configurable) menus for desktop icons, the > > taskbar and > > the desktop. > > > > The configuration itself is done in one or more setup files (there is > > an include mechanism). > > > > What people could miss are the standard configuration programs they > > may be expecting on such a system. This is of course not the task of a > > window manager. However, with current Linux based toolkits, someone > > should be able to come up with some program that makes it possible to > > change the contents of the configuration file and restart the window > > manager. > > > > Jurgen > > > > > > > > > > Phil Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 09/25/2002 05:34 PM > > > > > > To: LTSP Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: (bcc: Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS) > > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] window managers > > Classification: > > > > > > > > On 25 Sep 2002, Joseph wrote: > > > > > I just got done looking at the qvwm manager. Sure is different... > > > > Haven't tried that one yet. What is it like? > > > > -- > > Phil Davey > > Computer Officer > > Hughes Hall College, Cambridge > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
