Window manager

Posted Aug 11, 2011 12:11 UTC (Thu) by runciter (guest, #75370)
Parent article: The road to Enlightenment

I seem to remember that the WM that came before Metacity was Sawfish, not Enlightenment.

Window manager

Posted Aug 11, 2011 12:31 UTC (Thu) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link] (3 responses)

>I seem to remember that the WM that came before Metacity was Sawfish, not Enlightenment.

Yes, Enlightenment was used before that but wasn't a ubiquitous choice because it was considered absurdly big and bloated when all you wanted was a window manager (how things change).

IIRC Sawfish was an attempt at getting a standard WM that did enough to be useful for nearly everyone but without all the bells, whistles, and gongs which made Enlightenment so heavyweight.

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Posted Aug 11, 2011 14:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Sawfish was also very extensible and flexible... very much unlike Metacity.

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Posted Aug 11, 2011 18:56 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

I think, that was exactly the reason why Metacity was chosen.

<flame>
Let me introduce the first mock up of the coming GNOME 5:

----8<------
gboolean gnome (void)
{
return FALSE;
}
----8<-------

Still an early mock-up, but nearly complete feature-wise!
</flame>

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Posted Aug 13, 2011 2:34 UTC (Sat) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

That is not written in JavaScript, and hence is not at all accurate. :)