AFAIK WindowMaker can be part o a GNUStep DE. I started using it for the reduced colormap (useful with 256 colors), but now I am addicted to its rainbow patterns :D
-- Gian Uberto Lauri Messaggio inviato da un tablet > On 30/mag/2014, at 20:09, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:38:50 +0200 > "Gian Uberto Lauri" <sa...@eng.it> wrote: > >> David Dušanić writes: >> >>> Ok, we have to be even more correct on this, even JWM is just a >>> window manager. >> >> One may agree with the precision of your classification. >> >> Or the same one may increase confusion by (rightfully) asserting that >> depending on user skills and habits, a WM and shell may be all the >> "desktop environment" a user needs, especially when she already has >> (or can create easily) all the inter-program communication required. > > And in addition to everything you just said, the WM/DE distinction > isn't binary, it's a spectrum. At one end is KDE, where everything's > provided and interconnected. At the other is something like JWM, which > pretty much just manages windows. > > Between those extremes are things like LXDE, which provides quite a few > apps, and IceWM, which provides a few. Then there's WindowMaker, which > doesn't ship with all that much, but there are dozens of little apps > and applets built from the ground up to interact with it. > > If I stretch, I could even make an assertion that a DE is a document > telling what software to install and how to use it within your > environment. For instance, there are tray and panel type things you can > add to your OpenBox. The document could tell how to install > suckless-tools and then add dmenu_run as a hotkeyed option for quicker > running of programs. > > I guess what I'm saying is this: I know KDE is a Desktop Environment, > and I know that JWM is a Window Manager, but with anything between > those extremes, I don't know what to call it, and I guarantee you that > if I call it one or the other, the guy I'm talking with will tell me > I'm wrong. > > And even beyond that, I just don't understand the significance of the > distinction. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140530140953.62f60545@mydesk > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/f639e5a1-f7a8-4657-837c-f664ab8cf...@eng.it
