Re: ctwm future?

From: Gary Kline (kline@tao.thought.org)
Date: Thu May 13 1999 - 02:31:17 CEST


According to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE:
> Are there any plans to do stuff with ctwm? What are the plans?
>
> Some time ago, improving menu navigation via the keyboard has come up
> on this list. A related thing would be to allow kbd shortcuts for
> menu entries. (Currently, one can use the first character, but that
> loses if there are several entries beginning with the same character.)
>
> Maybe KDE or Gnome integration? Integration of a scripting language?
>

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> Sadly, I don't really grok X11 programming and thus I'm probably not
> going to be very helpful :-|
>

        I'm no Xlib or Xt/Xaw guru (after 3 years of playing with
        it, but this fall I'm going to publish the alpha version of
        my light-sound app. Gotta start somewhere.

        I've been meaning to ask the same question about ctwm.
        There seem to be two paths: KDE and Gnome. From what I've
        heard others say, Gnome is turning into the leader.

        My bias is that I can do everything with my own-build
        desktop (xbiff, xlbiff, xpostit, calendar tool, tkdesk, &).
        Having a pre-selected environment might be easier, tho.

        ctwm is a marvelous window manager.... but if it's going
        to survive and prosper, integration would be a major plus.

        gary

>

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   Gary D. Kline         kline@tao.thought.org          Public service uNix



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