Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 14:39:52 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Enlightenment and Gnome2 Message-ID: <20021007213952.5139A5D06@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "07 Oct 2002 17:32:55 EDT." <1034026376.320.57.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: 07 Oct 2002 17:32:55 -0400 > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:20, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I'd like to start moving to gnome2, but our site uses enlightenment as > > the standard WM. I have heard that Enlightenment is not going to work > > for gnome2, now or in the future. > > It is my understanding that GNOME 2 is moving towards metacity as the > default WM. However, the original sawfish developer has just moved back > into action, and is fixing sawfish bugs left and right, so sawfish might > stick around for a while longer. > > > > > Can anyone confirm this? If it is the case, I guess I'll have to look > > at metacity and see if it can do all that the users are used to > > enlightenment doing. > > You should be able to accomplish most things with either sawfish or > metacity. Metacity will definitely be much lighter weight that E. A 100,000 line COBOL program running in IBM 1401 emulation mode would be lighter weight than E. But that is not really much of a problem with modern CPUs and graphics cards. Users love the eye candy! Oh, well. They learn to live without it. (Or they will get someone else to care for their desktops like all our folks not in my group. After all, system admin is NOT in my job description.) Thanks! R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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