Re: Beyond twm

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:32:48PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > It's not obvious to me why there needs to be a more complex window
 > manager in base.  twm works, but isn't fancy or pretty.  There are many
 > options in pkgsrc.   I realize pkgsrc is often not cross built, and base
 > is, but perhaps the same effort would be better spent on making binary
 > packages better or crossbuilding pkgsrc.
 > 
 > But, if that's what you want to hack on, don't let me discourage you -
 > everybody likes to do different things, and that's part of what's good
 > about open source.

Right, twm is neither fancy nor pretty; it's also Olde and not up to
current standards. It is embarrassing to ship it as the default
enviroment.

(I wrote that project description)

fluxbox is probably more ready out of the box, but golem seems
preferable if someone's willing to put some time into it.
Unfortunately, it kinda needs a new config system, plus some other
hacking. If someone takes up the project I'll commit to putting
together a nice-looking default theme, which it also doesn't currently
have.

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David A. Holland
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