I have been around some wm mainly fluxbox, lately I have been working with a great small wm (tiny some will say) call dynamic window manager, by the way dwm is also some new crap from our best friends Desktop Window Manager.
I love them both dwm is great at not getting on your way and fluxbox is super fast but there is always this program that you love that doesn’t respects X and then you have trouble.for example try running rox inside fluxbox it will grafully take control of your desktop and then there is no way to get a menu, I know you can pass in params to stick it at north or south or nodesktop but then what’s the point of rox if it has no desktop? as another example take gaim or any other IM client and try to run it inside dwm it will threat it as a full screen app and I’m not up for tagging everyone as “float” and starting to patch the code is not a good idea.
the best part of all is that this is not dwm or fluxbox fault is the fault of whoever designed the program to just do what they want. not what X tells them too. But I’m just tired of having to choose between
- throwing out the program
- finding a workaround
- just complain about how bad it is.
Why gnome?
well to start I don’t like kde, never did and never will (note to self, if you ever run kde unpublish this post :D) other then the fact that it has way too much crap, it’s slow and reminds me windows and I don’t know why kde developers want to make everything and stick a k in front of it. it’s just flustrating.
On the other hand gnome is more flexible and less intrusive, i find that a couple of kde apps that I do like (amarok, kdiff3, etc) work without problems on gnome.
And of course xgl and beryl, since this is actually usefull eye candy (aka F12).
The biggest problem I see here is that the gnome that comes with gentoo is very ummm crappy? so I’ll sit down with the gnome beautifier guide as bonus points I’m going to migrate to gnome 2.16. (ones it gets out of hardmask )