I'm curious as to the practicality and possibility of integrating mwm as a lightweight window manager, and more so, a replacement for dtwm, which will be removed at some point. Considering the Motif libs will be kept around for backwards compatibility, mwm seems like a simple way to provide a lightweight environment to users that desire one (Sun Ray shops, server management, etc.).
mwm, from my understanding, also provides some backwards compatibility with dtwm (the Xresource names are similar, and so fourth). This would help minimize the troubles customers might endure after CDE is removed. This would be an argument to the advantage of mwm over, say XFce4. Is there any reason why mwm isn't a viable replacement for dtwm? I do realize that Sun is trying to minimize the number of desktop environments they support, but considering mwm is a small window manger that might in the long run save Sun some trouble with customers, I think this point is moot. http://xwinman.org/mwm.php Perhaps someone internally can comment how "closely" mwm resembles dtwm without violating any NDAs? I'd be interested in what features mwm lacks that dtwm has. -- Derek E. Lewis delewis at acm.org http://delewis.blogspot.com
