Selecting a window manager

[Paul Michael Reilly]

John Summerfield wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:22, David L Norris wrote:
> 
>>If you do want/need to switch WMs then the odds are
>>good you will do it exactly once and thus don't need some utility
>>cluttering the menus for all eternity.
> 
> 
> The ability to choose used to be present, it's functionality that has been 
> removed, and the result is that it is harder to change than it should be. 
> People often say "OSS is about choice," and while I don't like the form of 
> words I agree choice is one of the things I value most about the software I 
> run. I have KDE and Gnome both as primary desktops on the various computers I 
> use, and in the past year I've regularly used Balsa, Kmail, 
> Thunderbird/Mozilla and Evolution for email. To a lesser extent, I've also 
> used mutt (not my kind of dog) and pine,
> 
> I value my choices and my right to make them; I deprecate the fact Gnome now 
> makes it harder to change wm that it once was.
> 

Well, well.  There's two of us ... maybe even a third out there. :-)

-pmr