Re: weird window manager

[Vic <ntr southwind net>]

Oh POOP.
Mebbe I missed the point of these things.
Are they strictly for *developers* purposes?
Why did not someone say so?

Then they would be a good skeleton for experimenting
with inventing a new window manager and/or GUI.

I find it true that one has to "start somewhere".
Rather than start with nothing do they have a 
basic wm to start with hence open source?

Then that I would understand.
I think its interesting how olwm looks like the mac os 
sort of, at least one version I saw did, and I was wondering
what could be done with that if some guy/girl sat down
and started tampering around with it.

Like if the one who came out with that kde theme
that looks like the mac os was messing around with
the source of olwm and came up with it that way?

So conceivably someone could create an entirely 
different wm or even GUI just by messing around with
the source from one of these wm's?

I have looked at the different wm's and gui's out there
and said "Hey that looks like---" [bare bones wm].




On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Chris Albertson wrote:
> No offense to Vic but isn't it interesting what people expect now
> days of window managers?  A few years ago no one would have even
> thought to ask for self configuring desktops.  Now it seems at least
> one person _expects_ this.  Wow I guess that's progress.
> 
> Actually one of my favorite window managers is OLWM (Open Look).  It comes
> up with nothing but a blank blue screen.  No toolbar, wharf, nothing.  It
> is what I call "zero clutter".
> 
> 
> Vic wrote:
> > 
> > What kind of window manager is fvwm when it does not have any icons?
> > It does not do anything its worthless.
> > I installed AOL inst mess and Licq and it does nothing, no icons to click on
> > nor does it show up in the pulldown menus to
> > show I even installed the stupid thing.
> 
> 
> 
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Vic

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