Very much semantic ;-) another example: FMMV a window manager, KDE an environment.
Many people now do use VM == environment Actually, I did run GNOME without a WM behind it. accidentally once... it was, as you'd expect, pointless! And it became to pass that on the Friday 15 Feb 2002 9:31 pm, Travis Crump did write as thus: > > > Stewart hector wrote: >> A suitable plug in could be written for the major linux WM - GNOME and >> KDE >> to allow this. Unfortunately the users of other WM would be moaning.... > > This is probably semantic, but I just thought I'd point it out anyway. > Gnome is not a Window Manager. Just try running Gnome without a Window > Manager running and howl in frustration as you can't move or resize any > of your windows... Gnome is a desktop environment.
