From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 10 04:07:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA16002 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bamboo.ints.ml.org (intschool.easynet.co.uk [194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15993 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@ints.ml.org) Received: (from stuart@localhost) by bamboo.ints.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07123; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:44 GMT (envelope-from stuart) Message-ID: <19981110120644.B6963@helan.org> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:06:44 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Scott Mitchell , Sue Blake , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Annelise Anderson , Phillip Salzman , Open Systems Networking , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env References: <7819.910633456@time.cdrom.com> <19981110084727.55542@welearn.com.au> <19981110100251.D11520@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981110100251.D11520@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>; from Scott Mitchell on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:02:51AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:02:51AM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > > Slightly heretical perhaps, but if all we want is something easy-to-use > that's installed by default, why not just borrow the stuff from RedHat > (replacing all the guy-in-hat icons with daemons, of course). I think just a stock fvwm2 installation would be more useful for most new users than xterm+twm. Better still would be to have a way of specifying the window manager the same way you choose Lynx and gated versions in sysinstall. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message