From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 2:39: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.oceanis.net (ns.dotcom.fr [195.154.74.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8925414E91 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pixel@excalibur.oceanis.net) Received: (from pixel@localhost) by excalibur.oceanis.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA12007; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:38:52 GMT From: Emmanuel DELOGET Message-Id: <199904280938.JAA12007@excalibur.oceanis.net> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <19990428091840.4655.rocketmail@web119.yahoomail.com> from Tommy Hallgren at "Apr 28, 1999 2:18:40 am" To: thallgren@yahoo.com (Tommy Hallgren) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:38:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As the well known Tommy Hallgren said... ->--- Emmanuel DELOGET 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) -> -- __________________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel DELOGET [pixel] pixel@{dotcom.fr,epita.fr} ---- DotCom SA http://www.epita.fr/~pixel | http://www.dotcom.fr/~pixel "On the last day, God created Linux. And Microsoft won its antitrust case" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message