Re: ctwm future?

From: Scott Perlman (sperlman@support.tivoli.com)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 10:36:54 CEST


Bjorn Knutsson did state upon Fri, May 14, 1999 at 07:28:14AM +0200:
> See, if you do that, you suddenly start playing catch up with other KDE/Gnome
> window managers. What I like about ctwm is that it does the tricks I need from
> a window manager, but without a lot of the fluff that's been creeping into most
> other WMs. Sure, there is still room for improvement. E.g. I'd really like to
> see better keyboard control. But I'd really like it if ctwm stayed as lean as
> possible.

Echoed strongly.

If CTWM goes the bloat route trying to patch in every whizbang feature,
and fluff, I'll just stay with what I've got, and port 3.5 when I need to.

ctwm is functional, not gaudy. If you want gaud, you're not going to
consider ctwm without a major re-write, and if you want lean and mean
you aren't going to consider ctwm afterwards.

ctwm is one of the only WMs left that is still just a WM, without trying
to be all things to all people. I'd prefer keeping it that way.

-Scott

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