damon wrote:
> The project is moving inescapably into its irrelevant eventuality.
>
(Damon, sorry to have emailed your personal account.)
If FVWM were moving towards some "irrelevant eventuality" I can't
believe that it would be because of any features. Fluxbox and IceWM(1)
seem to be very popular and both are clunky(2) and under-featured
compared to FVWM. A lot of the reason is probably just trend/fad.
Something as simple as a new webpage, nice default config, or slashdot
article could bring in a ton of new users any day. The 3D stuff, paned
windows, etc. are all nice, but not a fit for everyone, or (guessing)
even a majority of people. IMO, for people like myself who spend 99% of
computer time coding, the floating window interface is and will remain
the best fit.
-Shay
(1) I'm using IceWM myself at the moment, because of the lack of an
acceptable (to me) default config in FVWM. Probably come back in the
future (IceWM is not very tweakable) when I have time to set up FVWM. I
switched to IceWM after a HD crash. I needed to gut "up and running"
*quickly*. A nice thing about IceWM is that you can install it and get
back to work instantly.
(2) The exception to this is the lack of "alt-tab" in FVWM.
"Alt-tab-tab" is *very* clunky. A serious turn-off to my wife when I
explained this to her.
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Received on Wed Dec 15 2004 - 11:06:40 GMT