On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote: Sawfish is a "light" WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop manager. There are others not supplied by mandrake that can do the same, and there is Enlightenment which can also rrun under GNOME. GNOME is a desktop environment designed to run with a compliant window manager, not alone. Enlightenment is heavy on the eyecandy but surprisingly fast. Sawfish is extremely fast which makes up for its lack of native features (except a nice ability to run themes), so GNOME with Sawfish is much much faster than GNOME with Enlightenment. As a result, many GNOME users would call E a resource hog. Now we are approaching the time when E will have its own File manager, and everything about E has been rewritten for reliability, modular organization, code reuse and speed. The result is that we will likely have Four Desktop environments to choose from, KDE, GNOME, Xfce and E version 0.17. The situation could be nicer for the user. We could have 5:-). Actually, I think the competition inspires innovation and I don't want to see us (any of us) settle on one WM/DM any time soon. GNOME and KDE have recently become both more and less friendly to newbies, doing more for them, but offering a huge number of new options and a number of new features that can best be characterized as "engineer's toys". Now the new E promises a lightweight, fast approach to doing most of the same things with the added feature of some of the greatest eye candy available on a flat screen. Users will tell us by their usage patterns which idea is more viable. Civileme
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