Re: [Rule-list] graphical browser redux

[Marco Fioretti]

Larry,

About window managers, please read

      http://www/freesoftware.fsf.org/rule/window_man.html 

and let me know your opinion. ANy contribution is welcome!

Choosing the wm is in my opinion partly independent from the
availability of configuration tools for it. I say this because there
are several wm lean and mean by themselves, but with config tools
requiring GTK/QT. Such libraries are not guaranteed to be on a RULE
box, for obbvious reasons, and installing them only for something that
one does once or seldom is not worth it.

In other words, configuration on a RULE box is going to be mostly
editing ASCII files, simply because it is much lighter on
ram/disk/etc..

Other issues in your message:

vnc:            YES

using RPMs:     YES, of course for all the reasons you
mention. Whenever standard ones exist we just use them, otherwise, as
you say, we will choose a maintainer for each application, and he will
make it available to the project. We definitely want to have
everything under rpm control, even because if one installs other RH
packages after RULE may be in trouble otherwise.

"browsers that write to the linux framebuffer" Which ones?

          Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti
                RULE project leader

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