Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> >>> Christian Kelly wrote: >>> >>>> There's always CDE :) >>>> >>>> >>> CDE isn't too bad. Its certainly much better than gnome in this >>> particular regard. But it isn't OpenSource, and my fear is that Sun >>> plans to do away with it. >>> >> At this point, the question is not "if" CDE will go away, but "when". >> >> > > Exactly. So I am requesting that Sun and the community consider some > lightweight replacement (xfce4, blackbox, whatever). Heh, wouldn't it > be a hoot if olwm came back? :-) >
olvwm :) > Frankly, I'd prefer one that is so lightweight that it didn't involve > any non-window-manager behavior. Even CDE could get horked up by messed > up configuration files, incorrect network configuration, etc, and having > an alternative that is resilient against this kind of misconfiguration > is likely to be useful for the cases I'm considering. (This is one of > the reasons that I'm using xfce4 -- it seems to be much more resilient > against configuration file corruption, stale locks, etc. than the other > desktops I've tried.) > Windowmaker is also an excellent fit for what you desire. It gives a lot in a minimalist package and useful keybindings. Regards, Moinak.
