On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 17:17, Marek Habersack wrote: > As I wrote previously, the options I've been asked about (and it happens > that I've been using them myself) were the workspace switching wrap option, > the opaque vs. wireframe move/resize options. For me it's just a matter of > personal preference - I don't like the visual effect of moving a full window > or resizing a full window - but people who asked me have slightly older and > slower hardware where the video card simply doesn't do well when a full > window is dragged/resized. That's about the only options I'd like to see > configurable somewhere. The only person I heard on this list complaining has a 486. The class of computers we are (loosely) targetting for Gnome is a 300 Mhz machine with above 32 megs of ram (it probably works on slower machines, depending on the arch, the pieces of software you usually run, etc.) Thinking of running a modern desktop on a 486 is just a dream. (BTW, metacity has "workspace switching wrap option", I added it, because I used it with Window Maker, and it made sense). > > > Hmm, another question has just popped up in my mind. Looking at the lack > > > of the window manager configuration applet in the control panel and > > > reading some messages here and there I've gotten the impression that GNOME > > > is aiming at tight window manager integration with the desktop (kind of > > > the KDE one) - is that true or is it just my (incorrect) impression? > > > > We're definitely aiming for tight integration (why wouldn't we?) but there's > That's ok as long as the integration isn't too tight - as to the point where > one cannot switch to a different window manager. Why is the focal point of this community on "window managers" ? I don't see any KDE people whinging about the fact that they can only run kwin (or whatever the latest version of it is called). Sawfish has a lot of shortcomings, the main one being that nobody really understands its code, and that John is busy. Just like there's only one file-manager supported in Gnome, there could well be only one window manager supported. Sounds cool to me. > > Most of your questions would be best answered on GNOME's desktop-devel-list, > > rather than the Debian package maintainer's list. > I guess you're right ;) - it's just that something inside me is against > subscribing to yet another voluminous mailing list, haha :)). But I suppose > that would be the right way :) *shrug* Talk to your dog rather than to your doctor, when you feel sick, the doctor lives too far, right ? -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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