Re: Window Managers, A question

[David Freeman <freeman@earthling.net>]

Gregory Bell wrote:
> 
> Rick Jones wrote:
> 
> > Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> > >
> > >   I took a look at the latest version of WindowMaker, which is a window manager
> > > that emulates the OpenStep window manager.  As far as I can see, and I've been
> > > using it heavily for a few days, is that it is quite stable and good looking.
> > > It is quite a resource hog, takes 64 colors of the machine, which is quite a
> > > lot when you have an 8-bit deep color display.
> >
> > That is a choice I've been considering.  I haven't checked it out yet,
> > I've been working on Enlightenment.
> >
> > Can you get Enlightenment at www.enlightenment.org and compare it with
> > WindowMaker?
> >
> > I'm leaning toward enlightenment for a few reasons.
> >
> >         1. Rasterman, author, is now working for Red Hat on the gnome project
> > which           is the source of our desktop tools.  I figure that both gnome
> > and E are               going to pick things up from the other because of that.
> >
> >         2. E is more configurable than any of the other WM's out there.  This
> > means           that a user is free to create any look and feel he/she wants.
> > Since                   "themes" can be changed via a menu selection, a user can go
> > from a wild             theme to a Mac theme to a Win95 theme to an Amiga theme
> > without changing                config files, as long as he/she actually has the
> > theme.
> >
> >         3. E has a tcl configurator called Econfig that configures/builds
> > themes          from within the GUI.
> >
> >         4. E is a bit of a resource hog as well, not as bad as it was, but
> > considering the other pro's to it, weighed against AS and WM which are
> > just            as bad if not worse, I think it may turn out to be the overall
> > best choice.            The *only* other choice, as far as I'm concerned would
> > be FVWM, and I would            not be happy having that represent SEUL/Linux to
> > prospective converts.  It's             just too damned fake looking.  It tends to
> > look like something out of a kids               coloring book.
> >
> > Let me know what your comparison turns out like.  Also give me an idea
> > of what kind of system you're using.  Take a look at the themes page for
> > screen shots of some of the different themes.  Gives you an idea of the
> > versatility in the program.  Instead of adding a new window manager you
> > add a theme that looks and feels like it for a fraction of the hard
> > drive space.
> 
>   I only have one question for you, do not both enlightenment and Windowmanager require
> 
> that all apps that are on the desktop be recompiled using GTK??  If this is the case
> then
> it seems to me that both are relatively useless for Seul because other than some basic
> apps there are not many apps that have been converted.
> 
> An example, I use pine as a mail reader.  Can I install either of the above WM's and
> get pine to run??
> 
>     Greg


Window Mangers <--

just add a frame to any applications windows.  Looks better with GTK
apps, but works fine with non-GTK (ie, Motif, Tk).

Anyways, pine runs in a term windows, which any dist will have.
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