Re: [TCLUG:11190] GNOME/KDE/WindowManager Debate

[Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Scott Dier - dieman wrote:

> Enlightenments d/l is big. But the installed size is just as much as many
> other wm's.
Perhaps. But as has been said, bloat is more than installed size; and E
runs very noticeably slower than sawmill on my K6-III/450 with 128MB RAM.
Not that it has *bad* performance compared to, say, Windows... ;p

Besides, sawmill has eye candy that rivals E's (even though the themes are
written in lisp -- this still makes much more sense to me than E's theme
language). And sawmill plays nice with gmc. :)

> The key is enlightenment allows for very pretty graphics and
> customissation.
See above. (and yes, I know E has more customization capability)

> > I tried blackbox. I kinda like it's simplicty, but I want a
> > maximize/minimize button onn my windows. 
> 
> Um. my copy does :)
I haven't tried blackbox in a while. I think it's the part of E that E
wanted to be that didn't become sawmill -- the standalone part. Blackbox
is also themeable (?) which is nice, again with the eye candy.

Chalk one up to freedom of wm choice! :)

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