Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:11:38 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Lorenzo Cogotti <miciamail@hotmail.it>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD Message-ID: <201209180011.q8I0Bcaa060336@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:40:33 CDT." <CAGsORuD--BKCVB5wHEw5Q5SedhJ0reFVJtC3628tJAncbmgr8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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> And then, a modern GUI should take care of Wifi, automount, No thanks, seperate issues. > and many > things can't be done with a single WM. That's why I said "twm is not a > modern GUI". So far, any questions? TWM is not a modern window manager, but is small & light, & comes with X11. I'm happy we each can choose window managers to replace it, or not, according to local host &/or per user criteria. Someone mentioned some boxes want no X11: To extend that list: (servers, firewalls, real time small embedded, minimised for security, machines on low speed serial connections, SLIP maybe etc), + maybe some blind people, using eg 40 char single line output devices (I've never seen one but heard of 'em), & half blind people, perhaps using ([VESA?] or twm with giant fonts (cos anything newer than twm maybe (guessing) might not tempt them so much). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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