6 Mar
2002
6 Mar
'02
5:24 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Chase [mailto:vaxzilla@jarai.org]
Much better
than those poor, bloated pieces of garbage that
GNOME, KDE,
Enlightenment,
> etc, have become. Now I'm no big fan of any of the newer window
managers either, but
OpenLook? GAH, ARGHHH *WRETCH* Sure, it's a personal preference and
all. My choice would be FVWM, and then probably TWM. Also, I'd
completely forgetten about Bowman and AfterSTEP. Bowman was nice and
lightweight, and I think derivative of FVWM.
Heh. I don't remember whether Bowman was FVWM derived or not, but
everything else was at the time, so why not? :) Actually, I wish
Enlightenment was still based on FVWM -- it would be much easier on the
CPU.
Anyway, yes, it's a personal preference, but I certainly like it better
than GNOME or KDE (since it will actually _run_ on a machine without
flooring a 200Mhz chip. There are one or two other "desktop
environments" for linux, but those never impressed me.
... so if you want an entire "environment" (that is, window management,
supporting apps, maybe a file manager, and if you're lucky a decent
set of widgets, all of which interoperate and share data nicely), what
other choice is there? (I would seriously like to know. Private
mail is fine, since most of this software is probably off topic :)
Personally, I use WindowMaker for window management, and don't bother
looking for "supporting apps," etc.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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