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Window manager variety

Posted Apr 13, 2012 0:29 UTC (Fri) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Window manager variety by alankila
Parent article: LFCS 2012: X and Wayland

"If there is one thing I would like to happen, then that would be that nobody would replace Weston with anything else. We don't need 20 window managers, just 1 good enough one. I desperately wish this point was more widely appreciated."

This is utter nonsense. This idea may fly on proprietary desktops where a certain behaviour/layout/theme is provided or mandated from above by "god", but this is a collaboratively developed free desktop where people are able to implement and their preferences more freely.

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Posted Apr 13, 2012 0:45 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

even on Windows you can't get away with making major changes like this. Microsoft is shipping a different look, but they have the option to switch back to the old way of doing things.

Window manager variety

Posted May 10, 2012 15:53 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>Microsoft is shipping a different look, but they have the option to switch back to the old way of doing things.

No they don't. Metro could be disabled in the Developer Preview, but it can't in the Consumer Preview. It remains to be seen how the final release will work.

(I've been using Windows 8 for a couple of weeks now; in many ways it's a great improvement over previous versions, but the moment you have to interact with Metro it feels like you're on a truck that just hit a wall. It's a horrifying blunder; I can't believe they seriously thought they could release a new OS with changes like this after seeing how Vista was received.)