On 07-Aug-2002 Jérôme Marant wrote: > Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Package: debian-policy >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> >> The attached patch should speak for itself. This came about because >> users would often install 'x-window-system' (installs twm) and 'gnome2' >> (installs metacity) in order to get a GNOME 2 desktop, but twm had a >> higher alternatives priority than metacity. I think this is wrong, >> because at least metacity will work with the standard desktop hinting >> systems...twm basically makes GNOME 2 (and presumably KDE) unusable. > > Actually, I would do the contrary, because since it aims at supporting > kde and gnome, it does not enhance your system but it rather bloats > it. So instead of being a plus, it is a minus ;-) > So every wm that does not support kde and gnome should have a higher > priority ;-) >
I was trying to be polite in my responses (-: note twm works just fine with GNOME with 3 major caveats: 1) no panel (and thus no applets) 2) no pager, but since twm lacks virtual desks anyway this is no problem 3) no desktop icons I use several KDE apps every day under blackbox (which is also not netwm compliant yet). There needs to be a distinction made between "I want all of the GNOME/KDE apps running" and "I want konqueror/koffice/whatever". The second item does not require any real support from the wm.
