RE: [Thinstation-developer] RE: beta5

[Michael C. <MClark@Nemschoff.com>]

I would love to have Icewm in the build.conf.  Non *nix users seem to be
more comfortable in this interface
then in blackbox.


Michael Clark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miles Roper [mailto:mr...@we...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:24 AM
> To: 'Mike Eriksen'; Paolo Salvan
> Cc: Trevor Batley; 'Peter Olsson'; Thinstation-Developer (E-mail)
> Subject: [Thinstation-developer] RE: beta5
> 
> 
> 
> ok, i'm going to open this up to the developers mailing list
> 
> would people like two WM in the build.conf, or have icewm as 
> a seperate
> contributed package download
> 
> do you have any preference Peter?
> 
> as for vmware, I havn't had a chance to play with this 
> package yet, probably
> not going to until beta6 so can't really comment yet either
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Eriksen [mailto:km...@ma...]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 08:28 p.m.
> To: Paolo Salvan
> Cc: Miles Roper; Trevor Batley; 'Peter Olsson'
> Subject: Re: beta5
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Paolo Salvan wrote:
> > 
> > Nxclient: ok for moving it as an official package
> 
> Yes, NX seems like an important new thing.
>  
> > Icewm: I think we should officially support only ONE wm.... 
> no problem
> > to switch to icewm (in particular if it could have a windows
> > look&feel... that would be appreciated by our users), but 
> we should move
> > blackbox out, IMHO...
> 
> Well, 300 kB is just acceptable to get a more windows-like 
> look (sigh). If 
> the two WMs can share the same unified settings in the 
> packages, let's 
> keep both of them. Otherwise we should decide which one to use.
> 
> > WMware: it doesn't seem to me a "core" package for a thinclient
> > distribution.... so I'd leave it as a contribs....
> 
> I don't think I understand what this package does, so - no 
> comments :-)
> 
> Mike
>  
> > bye!
> > 
> > Paolo
> > 
> > 
> > Miles Roper ha scritto:
> > > 
> > > Hi Guys,
> > > 
> > > Another question which has come up.  Peter Olsson has 
> been working with
> me
> > > on some package contributions he has made.  one is the 
> nxclient, some
> others
> > > are vmware and icewm.  I think the nxclient should be a 
> core package,
> but
> > > I'm unsure about icewm and vmware.  I can hear someone 
> saying "weren't
> you
> > > against icewm in the core packages" well, things change ;o)
> > > 
> > > Peter has made a nice job of the icewm package, it is 
> working with all
> the
> > > menus etc...  Still a couple of things need fixing, but 
> its ready for an
> > > initial release in beta5.  so do I include it as a core 
> alternative WM,
> or
> > > in the contributed packages.  I'm actually of two minds 
> about it.  Same
> with
> > > vmware.  part of the my softening is the package size for 
> icewm is only
> > > around 300k difference, which is not as bloated as I once 
> thought.  it
> > > doesn't need any extra libs besides libXpm, so isn't 
> actually to bad.
> > > 
> > > Let me know your thoughts :o)
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Miles
> > > 
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