On 14 Jul 2005 12:49:14 -0700, Geoff Kuenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you guys think of integrating sawfish into Emacs? i.e., to make Emacs > > be the WM! So that maybe most of the applications, like firefox, > > xpdf,...which are currently outside Emacs's world, will be also > > controlled by Emacs. And that's cool! > > I think it's a bad idea. What are the actual benefits, other than > "cool"?
See my previous mail for examples. > The obvious major drawback is that your environment would become more > fragile. Well, I guess my Emacs's quite stable. Usually when i quit Emacs, i'll shut down the machine soon. :-) > Any emacs problem would mean not having a window manager. > There's also a chicken-and-egg problem: if emacs is the window > manager, then suddenly you have the window manager managing itself. > Not a pretty thought. Hmm, maybe that's why we call it cool. :-) Is it that bad? At least someone else has created one for XEmacs. ----- WIlliam
