On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:38:50 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" <sa...@eng.it> wrote:
> David Dušanić writes: > > > Ok, we have to be even more correct on this, even JWM is just a > > window manager. > > One may agree with the precision of your classification. > > Or the same one may increase confusion by (rightfully) asserting that > depending on user skills and habits, a WM and shell may be all the > "desktop environment" a user needs, especially when she already has > (or can create easily) all the inter-program communication required. And in addition to everything you just said, the WM/DE distinction isn't binary, it's a spectrum. At one end is KDE, where everything's provided and interconnected. At the other is something like JWM, which pretty much just manages windows. Between those extremes are things like LXDE, which provides quite a few apps, and IceWM, which provides a few. Then there's WindowMaker, which doesn't ship with all that much, but there are dozens of little apps and applets built from the ground up to interact with it. If I stretch, I could even make an assertion that a DE is a document telling what software to install and how to use it within your environment. For instance, there are tray and panel type things you can add to your OpenBox. The document could tell how to install suckless-tools and then add dmenu_run as a hotkeyed option for quicker running of programs. I guess what I'm saying is this: I know KDE is a Desktop Environment, and I know that JWM is a Window Manager, but with anything between those extremes, I don't know what to call it, and I guarantee you that if I call it one or the other, the guy I'm talking with will tell me I'm wrong. And even beyond that, I just don't understand the significance of the distinction. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140530140953.62f60545@mydesk
