From owner-freebsd-gnome Mon Oct 7 14:56: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3775937B404 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B6043E42 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.2] (vpn-client-2.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.2]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g97LtVuE017672; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:55:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Enlightenment and Gnome2 From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Kevin Oberman Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021007213952.5139A5D06@ptavv.es.net> References: <20021007213952.5139A5D06@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 07 Oct 2002 17:55:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1034027719.320.59.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:39, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke > > Date: 07 Oct 2002 17:32:55 -0400 > > > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:20, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > I'd like to start moving to gnome2, but our site uses enlightenment as > > > the standard WM. I have heard that Enlightenment is not going to work > > > for gnome2, now or in the future. > > > > It is my understanding that GNOME 2 is moving towards metacity as the > > default WM. However, the original sawfish developer has just moved back > > into action, and is fixing sawfish bugs left and right, so sawfish might > > stick around for a while longer. > > > > > > > > Can anyone confirm this? If it is the case, I guess I'll have to look > > > at metacity and see if it can do all that the users are used to > > > enlightenment doing. > > > > You should be able to accomplish most things with either sawfish or > > metacity. Metacity will definitely be much lighter weight that E. > > A 100,000 line COBOL program running in IBM 1401 emulation mode would > be lighter weight than E. But that is not really much of a problem > with modern CPUs and graphics cards. Users love the eye candy! You can always theme it up with stuff from http://art.gnome.org. Joe > > Oh, well. They learn to live without it. (Or they will get someone > else to care for their desktops like all our folks not in my > group. After all, system admin is NOT in my job description.) > > Thanks! > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message