From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 10:39:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA2037B424 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA19286 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:55:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11547 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:52:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZP2JN00.31M; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:54:59 -0400 Message-ID: <39A27745.38A1E698@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:51:17 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Paul Jansen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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