-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:33:08PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:27:34 -0500 > Derek Martin <rh@sophic.org> wrote: > > > Changing your window manager to something other than Metacity in > > GNOME2 is HARD... even for many experienced users. The process is far > > from obvious (unless maybe you're very familiar with how such things > > work). Furthermore, AFAIK the process is not documented anywhere > > (except possibly on some random mailing list archive)... > > Is this a Red Hat problem, or a Gnome2 problem? Seems to me it's a > Gnome2 issue. Well, I think it's a little of both. GNOME 2 does not provide an easy way to change WM, so in that it is their problem. But in their defence, the default window manager of GNOME 2 is still sawfish, according to people on the GNOME usability list. Even though the developers have removed a lot of the configurability from Sawfish's configuration GUIs, I understand the functionality itself is still mostly there... So if you edit the config file by hand (or, perhaps if you drop an old config file in), then you'll be able to get most of the flexibility that people want in a window manager. Red Hat has chosen to use Metacity as their default GNOME WM instead. Why they did this, I have no idea, though I suspect most of the reasoning has something to do with code maintenance, and nothing to do with usability... So the problem is the combination of an unreasonable[1] default WM, with a lack of an easy way to change it. Each is partly responsible. - ---- [1] Where I get to define unreasonable, since I'm the one whose needs I care about most, for purposes of this discussion. :) Since reasonable means, more or less, "able to be pursuaded", and Metacity is often unable to be pursuaded to do what I want it to, then I conclude it is unreasonable. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+C37KHEnASN++rQIRAn8rAJwKVOacAzOir78OxuRMYHIpj0w3wACdHfiu 8tr5VtsYGZMm5gTHyneWqQI= =zSSV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
