KDE is not a window manager, it is the K Desktop Environment. An environment
offers far more than a standard window manager. With regards to KDE and
GNOME, KDE does not make it easy to change your window manager (although you
can - I run KDE with WindowMaker), leading one to believe that it is a window
manager when in fact the window manager, KWM, is only a part of it. GNOME, on
the other hand, provides an option in the Comtrol Centre to choose a window
manager. Before GNOME 1.2 the default window manager was Enlightenment. Since
then it has been Sawfish. There is nothing stopping you from choosing
something else, although it helps to pick a GNOME-compliant one. While I have
not used XFCE, I believe it is a similar story. It is an environment with a
separate window manager.
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:32, Ian Land wrote:
> Yes it is true. Read it again. I said "a window manager like KDE", not that
> KDE was the *only* window manager that supports single-clicks.
>
> > And XFCE is not KDE, so hereby I prove that the below sentence is not
> > true. :p
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > >Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others,
> > > like Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux
> > > way". The Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer,
> > > which also means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a gui
> > > question.
> > >
> > >> One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click
> > >> when a single click will do. For those of us
> > >> who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I
> > >> think the Linux way makes more sense.
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