Steve Litt wrote: > So, if I took dwm, packaged it with the fbpanel > panel, an fbpanel config tool,
Why would you use fbpanel with dwm though, the default bar is pretty hackable. Certainly, if you need a window list, then why not, but since dwm is a tiling window manager by default (and most use this mode), your windows won't be lost. > the Rox Filer file manager, the scrot screenshot > utility, the dmenu app-selector, Edward's Network > Tool (forgot its current name), ENT then! > and a custom GUI app, made by me, that acquires > settings from the user and recompiled dwm > accordingly hehe, why would a dwm user need a GUI for this > (dwm must be recompiled to be configured), and > a special menu leading to all these addons, and name > the whole thing GammaRay, then GammaRay is a DE using > dwm as its WM? No, it would be dwm with all these shenanigans. I mean, if a project (one project) would make these utilities, then you can call it a desktop environment. [...] > How often do you hear Xfce being called a > "window manager"? Have never heard. Because it's a desktop environment, and Xfwm is its window manager. Xfce project develops a panel, a desktop, a window manager, a text editor, an archive manager, a power manager, a session and all the components share a configuration system, that is also made by them. > LXDE and IceWM have pretty much identical user > interfaces and functionalities, except LXDE has a few > more peripheral utilities. And that is what makes it a DE. [...] > Heck, even Openbox ships with a system menu and an > (incomplete) configuration GUI. Having a graphic configuration tool still doesn't make a window manager a desktop environment. Many have - Flux-/Black-/Openbox, FVWM, Jaysus, even Xfwm and Metacity do, too. > In this thread, does Xfce qualify? Does LXDE? > Openbox? Dwm? Xfce - a DE. LXDE - a DE. Openbox - a WM. dwm - a WM. > It's just something to think about. It doesn't even matter. / Mitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng