Re: Enlightenment, WindowMaker, AfterStep
Michael Barnes (mibarnes@mail.vth.vt.edu)
Thu, 7 May 1998 20:22:51 -0400
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 01:10:18AM +0200, Dirk Ertner wrote:
>
> I think, nobody is really reading my concerns ... have there ever been some
> attempts to pull the development power of the above together?
well e is its own thing, if you want to run e then do it I see no way
or reason to incorporate it into any other project.
as for wm and as, well I see them as pretty much the same thing but I like
as better because it has more features like a pager and you can bind
mouse events.
> I read again and again what is good here and there ... why can't we work
> together in some way?
I think that x is going through massive changes nowadays. I mean that with
the new restrictive licensing and such and it may possibly even
disapeare from linux if ggi gets established, however this may be quite
a while. Also the widget thing is fairly restrictive. Xaw is everywhere
but not feature full and pretty nasty too look at. Qt has its special
licensing problems which is what kde is based around. What looks like
the future is the gtk/gnome development and that is shaping up slowely
but surely, and I am waiting for that to stabalize.
But my final answer to why can't we work together as far as as, e, and
windowmaker is that we have a choice once we have chosen unix. I mean
look at all the windowmanagers available for X. How many wm's do you have
for macos? How many wm's do you have for win95? How many wm's do you have
for winnt? How many wm's do you have for os2? Get my drift.
> Don't drop this thread - go for it!
if you feel like it....
Mike
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