Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:38:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> To: thallgren@yahoo.com (Tommy Hallgren) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <199904280938.JAA12007@excalibur.oceanis.net> In-Reply-To: <19990428091840.4655.rocketmail@web119.yahoomail.com> from Tommy Hallgren at "Apr 28, 1999 2:18:40 am"
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As the well known Tommy Hallgren said...
->--- Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> wrote:
->> I think it would be better to hack such window manager (this
->> would let the users choose their icons if they want, and that
->> should be (I think) a better solution.
->
->You are confusing a window manager and a filsystem browser/desktop. A window
->manager is NOT a desktop.
Of course. But I speak about the new wave of WMs. Those things, named
E, Window Maker and so on, have some desktop functionnalities that are
incorporated with the wm (such as icon-based quick app launcher and so
on - could you say me that a qal is a needed part of a wm ?).
Plus : they (the wms) have a bunch of config file that any application
could read (such as the themes files, or, more easily (for example in
Window Maker), the iconsets files).
So I really think that it is better to hack the wm - or, if you
prefer, to create gnome/whatever proggies to handle this - than to
hack the fbsd kernel.
Yours,
->
->Regards, Tommy
->
->===
->Regards, Tommy Hallgren
->Briljantg. 31, SE-421 49, Göteborg
->Tel.: 031 - 770 5232 (Work: Telia Prosoft)
->Tel.: 0709 - 312 404 (GSM)
->Tel.: 031 - 47 65 28 (Home)
->
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