From: Erik H. <eri...@sl...> - 2003-10-07 17:34:27
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--- Laurent Moussault <lau...@9o...> wrote: >Hi, > >Erik Harrison: > >> 1) I think we need a Window Manager. Did Framer ever get anywhere? > >I'm the author of Framer. I had to drop its development due to >personal problems. Now I'm slowly going back into activity, but I'm I'm sorry. I hope that everything is well now. >not sure that further development of Framer is a good idea... As >others have mentioned, there's already many good EWMH compliant WMs, >and it would be much more efficient to package them as ROX apps than >to bring my tiny WM "up to spec" with all the features a normal users >expect from a window manager. I can see that. >The problem is, a ROX window manager is not really different from any >other WM from the user point of view (except for the config thing). I >think it would be more useful for rox users to have new applications >with a ROX gui (e.g. a mail reader or web browser with menu on right >click, DnD saving, and GTK2). >Concerning the "pinboard is not transparent" thing, the problem is >that EWMH itself recommand to use a desktop window (as the filer do) >over the root window, Oh I know that. But if we came with a WM then users would not say "ROX killed my background" -Erik _____________________________________________________________ Sluggy.Net: The Sluggy Freelance Community! |