Hello Derek, Well since we already got /usr/openwin/bin/twm which is also a light window manager, i be surprised if you got many folks who be interested in mwm. Although, i think mwm look and feel is better than twm. But, in this day and age, they are all obsolete, and the point is to have a light weight option for debugging and or other short emergency needs, for which twm is sufficient.
Just my 0.2 cents :-) --mahmood Derek E. Lewis wrote: > Derek E. Lewis wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> > > I'd also like to mention that if there's enough interest expressed in > this, I'd like to go through the formalities of making this an official > OpenSolaris project and doing any work that'd be involved with the > integration of it. > >
