KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software [LWN.net]

KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 28, 2009 22:32 UTC (Wed) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
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But why did you do that to yourself? My 1996-vintage.fvwmrc still works
fine and gives me the same level of functionality it has always done -- and
kde apps run just fine if I start them in that environment.

Of course, I only visit fvwm when feeling nostalgic, because, even though
fvwm still is fvwm and is just as functional as it used to be, a modern
desktop like kde4.2 gives so much more functionality, it's not funny
anymore.

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KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software

Posted Jan 29, 2009 8:39 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

That is not exactly correct. FVWM is pretty much a desktop writing framework. It provides you with directives to write your own desktop.

FVWM of today supports many things that 1996 FVWM didn't.

I personally find FVWM too low-level and dumb for my taste. I have to spend too much time configuring it to do what I actually want (as opposed to what I told it). E.g. I never managed to get it to do the proper desktop movement IceWM has (but I'm also a bit lazy).