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GNOME has lost its wayGNOME has lost its wayPosted May 19, 2004 19:49 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: GNOME has lost its way by coulamac Parent article: The Spatial Way
It is still easy to change window managers. At the command line, type killall metacity; [type the name of your window manager here]; And you're set. Well, not quite. You first have to change the process of metacity so that it doesn't respawn before you start the other window manager. Also, you have remember to use 'nohup' if you start from a command line, or else your window manage is going to die when you close the terminal program. None of this is easy. In fact, it would be tough to make it much harder for the average user. If it's been documented outside of mailing list archives, I've not seen it. And the situation is worse than it used to be; GNOME 1.x had a window manager option in preferences. All this because some hypothetical pap-sucking idiot user is going to get confused if he sees a 'window manager' option in preferences. I don't buy it.
GNOME has lost its way Posted May 27, 2004 9:57 UTC (Thu) by dash2 (guest, #11869) [Link] All this because some hypothetical pap-sucking idiot user is going to get confused if he sees a 'window manager' option in preferences. I don't buy it.Most of the people I know - PhD students - do not know what a "window manager" is, nor should they. Seeing a "change window manager" option in preferences would be yet more proof to them that computers are bizarre, obscure devices, existing in a world of meaningless jargon.
If you want to change window manager, learn how to do it. If you want to change window manager from the GUI, patch your system or write a panel applet. Don't complain about the fact that Gnome is trying to make a user-friendly desktop. It's fine to be a tweaker, but not to impose extra complexity on others because you don't want to DIY.
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