Re: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Exactly :-) On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 06:02, Ian Land wrote: > Yes, you're right that KDE isn't, strictly speaking a window manager, and > that there is a difference between a desktop environment an a wm (I run > Enlightenment under Gnome, for example). Doesn't change the point I was > making, which is

Re: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
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

Re: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-07 Thread Ian Land
Yes, you're right that KDE isn't, strictly speaking a window manager, and that there is a difference between a desktop environment an a wm (I run Enlightenment under Gnome, for example). Doesn't change the point I was making, which is that single-clickedness isn't a feature of Linux, but of the

Re: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
KDE also gives the option of having double or sincle clicks. I am, and probably always will be, a fan of double clicking, as it provides greater flexibility with the UI. A UI is a very personal thing. That's why we have things like themes and configurable toolbars. The beauty of Linux is that y

Re: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-07 Thread Ian Land
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 KD

[newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-06 Thread Paul
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ian Land wrote: I accidentally forgot to delete this mail in the gates gets linux thread, so I saw that the title was far away from the text. In XFCE there's a simple setting to use a 1 click to call up a program. And XFCE is not KDE, so hereby I prove that the below sentence

RE: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-06 Thread Mark Johnson
Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] window manager/single click On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ian Land wrote: I accidentally forgot to delete this mail in the gates gets linux thread, so I saw that the title was far away from the text. In XFCE there's a simple