Re: [rox-devel] ROX in the future

[Christopher S. <che...@ya...>]

--- Erik Harrison <eri...@sl...> wrote:
> 1) I think we need a Window Manager. Did Framer ever get anywhere? If 
> it is in limbo are there any Eiffel programmers out there to get it up 
> to spec? Or perhaps some enterprising soul could package up an existing 
> window manger - perhaps remove the MCS stuff from xfwm4 and use the old 
> Oroborus config file format?
> 
> I mention it because the most asked question by far in rox-user is "How
>  do I make the pinboard transparent?" I think that one of the reasons 
> that KDE and GNOME have less of a user issue with this is because they 
> have a default window manager, rather than being integrated with an 
> existing installation.

Personally, I agree completely (but, I'll probably get shouted down here ;)).  If ROX where
designed to work with ONE window manager, I think it would be easier to add/remove/modify
features, rather than working to make ROX transparent to all WMs...  Now, the question becomes,
"Which WM?".  I have a feeling that this will start a holy war, of sorts :0.

> 2) Bring the ROX wrappers up to date. This is the one project I have 
> the limited technical experience to actually do, but I'm not sure I 
> have time.

I've been working on this, just haven't uploaded them yet...

Chris

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