Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 04:21:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902020359080.47466-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpaeyxsojj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 2 Feb 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >These are the features I personally require of a window manager: > > 1) It must have virtual desktops. > 2) It must allow binding viewport switching to keys > 3) It must allow binding the usual window operations (delete, kill, > maximize, iconify, horizontal / vertical zoom) to keys > 4) it must allow binding mouse movement or at least window hopping > to keys. If possible, it should allow binding mouse clicks to > keys (fvwm2 can do that). Thank you for your support Dag. All of the above are advanced (ok, ok... more advanced than a new newbie) user items that people like you and me will hack on. None of the window managers that I have used are setup to do all of this cool stuff out of the box. KDE/kwm lacks some power and adds some bloat compare to fvwm2 to be sure. It comes out of the box very usable and very slick. If we endorse KDE, I say endorse it "as is". Don't do anything to KDE except 'pkg_add KDE'. KDE has lots of bang for the buck. My idea for calling for KDE is that it can be done AS IS. To require work and customization destroys my whole argument and takes us right back to programming some sort of custom work intensive desktop. This would have to pull developers off tech issues and would therefore be harder to support. KDE is, to me, the most painless way for FreeBSD to lay even a tiny claim to desktopdom and in the process help brand new users. Ah Well, as Jordan said in past, says, and will say again, "Show me the diffs." Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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