On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:18:14PM -0700, S. Champ wrote: > [ alternate subject-line: > "the big ol' debian tree. : GUI node." ] > > > hi. > > > while i'm still working on getting debian installed, i'd like to look ahead to > what options are available among the windowing environments.
I'm not sure but wouldn't X Windows be the windowing environment and not each window manager? Afterstep and sawfish are window managers, Gnome and KDE are desktop environments that run in addition to a window manager. > > > i know of the following: > > Gnome (? uses motif? ) Gnome uses gtk [http://www.gnome.org] [http://www.gtk.org] > KDE (? uses Q? ) Qt. > Afterstep (? is this still used by anyone? an analogue of it is heavily > used in > the ms-w community, under the name 'litestep' ) I've never heard of litestep but if the ms-w community uses it I highly doubt it has anything to do with afterstep because ms-w is pretty much a one desktop thing. Afterstep is still being developed AFAIK, but I personally do not like it as much as, say, WindowMaker. > > > and i'd like to build some sort of a tree for helping folks to choose from > among > the options, and to install the chosen one(s). (~~ external links, > wget-lists, > etc. ) > > > this'll take some doc-digging on my own, and may take some package-building if > there are options that aren't yet *.deb'd , but i wanted to gather the > comments > >from the community, about it, and to pick up on what other options there may > >be > for a linux GUI. > Debian seems to have a good selection of window managers. Personally, I use sawfish (was called sawmill). When I'm in the eyecandy mood, I use Gnome with sawfish. Don't forget the classic fvwm. > > > thank you. > > > -- s.c. > > BTW, I think cross-posting on the debian lists is a no no...? -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For children with short attention spans: boomerangs that don't come back.
