Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:51:17 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <39A27745.38A1E698@mitre.org> References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> <v04210103b5c767b305fa@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > If all I want is a window manager, then it is not necessarily > "good news" that gnome automatically builds all those ports. > All I am looking for is something a little nicer looking than > twm, with multiple rooms (or whatever they'd be called in the > land of gnome). That does not mean I want to build every > application which references any gnome library, just so the > window manager can put all of those things in it's menus. > > I am not sure what a good solution would be, and whatever it > is I imagine it would require a fair amount of work to sort > out. I'm just saying that "building everything" is not > necessarily a GoodThing. Catch is: Gnome REQUIRES all of those other ports in order to work. If you want something that doesn't require a zillion dependancies, you might want to look into icewm or even the venerable fvwm. Personally I prefer windowmaker, it only requires a few of the very common shared libraries (you really can't get around installing libxpm these days). -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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