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

RE: [newbie] window manager/single click

2000-12-06 Thread Mark Johnson
no, you didn't prove anything, it still doesn't mean the "linux way" it just means the XFCE way... Better, the "linux way" is the "configurable way" which is what WM are all about... -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 1:42 PM To: [E