On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:21:07PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobīc? wrote:
> On 10-10-2001, at 05h 49'33", Suzanne Britton wrote:
> > > i like programs to do exactly what i like them to do, no
> > > matter if i have to spend 2 days configuring them
> >
> > Yes! I could write a 10-page rant about arrogant applications that
> > think they're smarter than the user.
> >
>
> I recommended the voting site to an other mailing list and
> I start to get e-mails which complained about the fact that
> fvwm (and others from wm family) are toghether with kde and gnome,
> which supposely are not window managers, but desktops. Can someone
> help me to understand why kde and gnome are not simply window managers?
> For me kde and gnome are just slow and imposible to configure.
> This is the definition of desktops?
No, not exactly :-)
A 'desktop environment' does a whole lot more than a window
manager - it depends on an underlying WM, e.g. dtwm for CDE, kwm
for KDE, sawmill for gnome etc. Usually, the WM can be replaced
with a different one. I guess the ratings on the web site refer
to the defaultt window manager coming with the desktop
environment. DEs aim at providing a consistent application
framework like a common help engine, printing services and tool
bars.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Wed Oct 10 2001 - 11:22:00 BST