From: Gary Kline (kline@tao.thought.org)
Date: Thu Feb 09 2006 - 21:40:13 CET
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:07:27AM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm using CTWM as is, and have never really been attracted by desktop
> systems like Gnome and KDE, and possibly XFCE, so I really don't know
> too much how well CTWM works with them.
>
> I know there are things we've done to at least make it work with
> Gnome, and there's been some talking of making it work better with
> ICCCM, I think, but where are we in regards to that? And is it
> possible for CTWM to take advantage of some parts or all of ICCCM
> without the need for another desktop system, i.e. could it be used
> entirely on it's own and still fulfill what Gnome, KDE and friends do,
> without compromising the simplicity and small footprint?
>
> It seems to me that the continued life of CTWM depends very much on
> keeping up with the standards while they're being developped, and I'm
> willing to do my part to make that happen. I wonder, are there others
> here who are willing to do some work in this area?
>
I don't think it would be ***THAT*** difficult to create the
hooks for Gnome (& KDE). But I may be entirelt wrong. After
around 25 years of hacking I was 9/11'd out of a job and being
then 56 decided to make a complete career change (my 3rd) and
take on grad study in philosophy (Ethics). As a programmer
my work included porting, some kernel hacking, and OS test.
Nothing with any window manager/desktop.
I'm still using CTWM on most servers; trying to get into GNOME
on my new whizbang Ubuntu server. Gnome is too glitzy in a lot
of ways. Too much mousing around for me. But, things are
moving more+more toward Gnome/KDE and it won't be long before
CTWM is a dinosaur if we don't have the ability to seamleslly
meld into Gnome. (Gnome and KDE interoperate.)
It'll be another 2+ years before I have my M.A, so am close to
havng negative spare time. Still:: what do we have to add to be
Gnome complient??
gary
-- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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