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Date:      07 Oct 2002 17:55:18 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enlightenment and Gnome2
Message-ID:  <1034027719.320.59.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021007213952.5139A5D06@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20021007213952.5139A5D06@ptavv.es.net>

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On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:39, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> > Date: 07 Oct 2002 17:32:55 -0400
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:20, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > I'd like to start moving to gnome2, but our site uses enlightenment as
> > > the standard WM. I have heard that Enlightenment is not going to work
> > > for gnome2, now or in the future.
> > 
> > It is my understanding that GNOME 2 is moving towards metacity as the
> > default WM.  However, the original sawfish developer has just moved back
> > into action, and is fixing sawfish bugs left and right, so sawfish might
> > stick around for a while longer.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Can anyone confirm this? If it is the case, I guess I'll have to look
> > > at metacity and see if it can do all that the users are used to
> > > enlightenment doing.
> > 
> > You should be able to accomplish most things with either sawfish or
> > metacity.  Metacity will definitely be much lighter weight that E.
> 
> A 100,000 line COBOL program running in IBM 1401 emulation mode would
> be lighter weight than E. But that is not really much of a problem
> with modern CPUs and graphics cards. Users love the eye candy!

You can always theme it up with stuff from http://art.gnome.org.

Joe

> 
> Oh, well. They learn to live without it. (Or they will get someone
> else to care for their desktops like all our folks not in my
> group. After all, system admin is NOT in my job description.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 
> 
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