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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:44:34 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Subject:   Re: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest
Message-ID:  <19980721144434.10683@hightek.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980721103734.dmlb@computer.my.domain>; from Duncan Barclay on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:37:34AM %2B0100
References:  <rx4g1fv7f2l.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> <XFMail.980721103734.dmlb@computer.my.domain>

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On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 10:37:34AM +0100, Duncan Barclay wrote:
> On 21-Jul-98 Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav wrote:
> > Bah, tvtwm rules. I have a hacked version of tvtwm (I added functions
> I'm fvwm 1.4, TkDesk and XFmail with X resources set to mimic XFMail's colour

Maybe someone has a little time to 'steal' from SuSE Linux.
They hacked the scripts much and provide the possibility to
switch between several window managers, but every windows
manager at least has the same client configured, so you can
really choose between 'look and feel' and 'functionality',
not 'what desktop has the most clients configured' ;-)

So I'd love to see an approach, where people think, what
functionality a Unix Desktop has to offer 
	- what client programs
	- what pointer (mouse) / keyboard functionality

and then do it in every windowmanager ... Swallow, where swallowing
makes sense and bind top to the swallowed xload and such ...

And make it possible, to switch between several window managers ...
afterstep, fvwm, fvwm95, kde, enlightenment, ...
and make that look the same for every window manager platform.

Amen ;-)

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