On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 07:19:13PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> [...]
> > I first saw KDE at TPC2 and thought 'oh my god, linux doesn't have to have
> > a pile of shit for a gui!'. I've used gnome but found the default of
> > having to click the titlebar to raise the window annoying. A developer
> > friend said the internals of Gtk et al are horrid.
>
> Gnome doesn't rely on a particular window manager, and it sounds like you
> don't like the default one. I'm rather attached to WindowMaker from when it
> had good features but was still fast on my 486.
I quite like windowmaker but I can't give up the power of
enlightenment.
> Now Enlightenment, that is the spawn of the devil and a secret plot by Intel
> and graphics card manufactures to sell more stuff. It's possible you got it
> by default.
nope the default gnome wm is now sawfish not enlightenment. Enlightenment
has totally configurable behaviour.
You can control focus and window raising seperately, configure all the
buttons and behaviour of borders and titlew bars through themes and it has
way configurable goodies.
My E setup has 3x3 virtual desktops/screens with different backgrounds on
each of the later. So I have 3 rollup pagers that expand and contract in
my bottom left corner and an icontray on the bottom right - I could
remopvve them both and just use a single 3x3 virtual screen.
I could also use a cut down theme and reduce the eye candy to pretty much
match windowmaker in performance if not blackbox (which I run when I play
video games so as to minimise wasted resources).
In fact I havent used gnome per se for ages - I use a mix of plain X, GTK,
GNOME and KDE apps, but no panel or start bars or application bars as
application/icon bars are redundant hwne you have enough VD/S to have a
few in each and can recognise an app in the pager screen shot.
A.
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