Re: [TCLUG:8668] Newbie opinion question

[Christopher Reid Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Nathaniel Moore wrote:

> environments (KDE and Gnome are the two I know about).  I am leaning toward
> window maker because I like the NeXT-stepish feel.  Do Kde and Gnome work
> on top of any window manager or just a few, and do they work better on some
> than others.  Or can they stand alone.  Any thoughts are appreciated.

KDE works better with other wms than it used to, Window Maker among them.
GNOME is generally paired with Enlightenment, which is a flaming pile of
dung (imho). If you like Enlightenment but not the weird crashyness and
the Sasquatch-esque memory footprint, get Sawmill (which I'm using right
now).

Note, however, that KDE, GNOME and CDE lock you into that one environment;
and you'll begin to depend on apps that only work with KDE, CDE or GNOME
installed and running. (KDE and GNOME do play nice together, so if you
have a gigabyte of memory you can run them both at once.)

All three environments are huge. And for what? A graphical file manager
that makes Windows Explorer look like an elegant gazelle? No way.

Window Maker on its own is quite nice, if a little bloaty.

Also look at lwm and aewm (available on freshmeat.net, like Sawmill).


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