X11: Where do we go from here? [LWN.net]

X11: Where do we go from here?

Posted Feb 26, 2004 18:04 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?

Assuming that X development does move more toward freedesktop.org, I wonder what will become of twm? I've thought for some time that XFree86 would be better served with a default window manager with more mainstream behavior.

The default window manager is probably used primarily by sysadmins setting up servers without the resources to run Gnome or KDE, and if twm is the UI that greats sysadmins new to Linux, its probably not a Good Thing from an advocacy point of view.

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X11: Where do we go from here?

Posted Feb 26, 2004 22:42 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

We already have xlibs, xserver (now with 100% more interesting bits) and xapps
at freedesktop.org. Some people still like twm, so we'll import it.

The general attitude is that we generally import stuff which people are willing to
take responsibility for (obviously this changes for things like XFree86 drivers),
so if someone stands up for twm, we'll import it.

X11: Where do we go from here?

Posted Feb 26, 2004 23:28 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]

[snip] if someone stands up for twm, we'll import it.

So if someone doesn't stand up for twm, then there will be no default window manager?

X11: Where do we go from here?

Posted Feb 27, 2004 4:05 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

Well, it won't be twm ... we don't have a default per se, right now.

X11: Where do we go from here?

Posted Feb 27, 2004 23:06 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

Well, it won't be twm ... if no-one stands up for it and imports it.