On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:47:35 -0500 Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> I've been trying to understand Windowmaker since 1999, and have > failed. That's why I didn't mention it in my list of great window > managers: I figured no Devuaners would be using it. > > And yet I have respected friends who like it. And aesthetically it's > very, very nice. And it's supposed to be modeled after NeXTstep, which > is *highly* respected by many people whom I respect. > > I've tried about 5 times, over 1.5 decades, to get Windowmaker > functional. By "functional", I mean a state at which I could be > productive. And failed all 5 times. > > If you ever create a presentation about Windowmaker, or make a > Windowmaker document, please get me in the loop. I'll tell you all the > rabbit holes I've fallen down, and to the extent possible, I'll tech > edit your presentation or document os John Q. Public can easily create > a productive Windowmaker interface. Well Steve, the answer is quite simple IMHO: WindowMaker wasn't made for you, you have different needs so you choose another windowmanager. I have never stumbled upon something that made me look for another windowmanager. Well, I have played with xfce (and I lost all the icons on the desktop twice) and I tried LXDE, but these wm's were missing some particular WindowMaker features and thus I switched back to WindowMaker. Don't forget: one gets used to a particular windowmanager. And every habit is fighting for its life ;-) But I just think that WindowMaker deserves to be present in a non-systemd distro. Not as a default wm, but as one of the options. R. -- ___________________________________________________________________ It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Richard Lucassen, Utrecht | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
