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 > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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