On Wed 12.Nov'08 at 11:07:49 -0200, Renato Botelho wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Michele Barbiero wrote:
> >> > > I hope this features are usefull and they will come with official
> >> > > WMaker distribution.
> >> >
> >> > But my impression (ok, my italian is not that good) is that you can
> >> > make it work without any need to patch wmaker, is that right?
> >>
> >> Yes, I do. But it's not simple for everyone to do this. And, I think,
> >> it's more politically correct that a management of composite features
> >> is runned by WMaker itself.
> >
> > I disagree. The role of the window manager is to manage windows, i.e.
> > provide window decorations that will allow one to move, resize, minimize,
> > maximize and close windows, not to alter the looks of the window content
> > (like adding transparency), nor to start 2 daemons to do this.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> I wouldn't like to see windowmaker changing its focus, the original
> proposal is to be a window manager, not a DE, and would be great
> if it continue being this.

Sure, that is why I asked Michele. If there is no need to patch wmaker
for this, than it should stay outside of wmaker's code.

I am the last person in the world who wants to see Window Maker
become a bloaty "desktop environment".


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