Re: Question about WindowMaker

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

Hi, I left this discussion and get back to real works. I just realize
it was discuss-gnustep list, sorry!

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Martin Dietze <di@fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> On Tue, March 22, 2011, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
>
>> Such extra support shouldn't exist as they were like some hacks that
>> barely work and crash all the times until the day I gave up trying to
>> use WMaker for GNUstep development. I know you guys like the WM, but
>> keep pushing it for the frontier ahead is a suicide battle. Just
>> personally stay with it as long as you wish like your old grandpas as
>> probably most of GS app will continue to work fine. But get out of the
>> delusion that we can market it for the mass.
>
> I don't see any suicide battle in this - WM is stable and far
> less resource consuming than any other desktop environment. Yet
> it is a complete (while slim) environment rather than a bare
> bones window manager. I haven't seen anything in WM that crashes
> all the time for the last 7 years. This cannot be said about
> other desktop environments.
>
> I've tried different enviromments in the past, have even been
> using GNOME for the last half year (just for the kick of an
> occsasional change), but so far I've always been back to WM
> after a while. I don't see why this should be a political
> question or anything related to some kind of sentimentality. If
> soemthing does the job better than others, then it is a valid
> and good choice, nothing less, nothing more.
>
> Cheers,
>
> M'bert
>
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