Article on IceWM

[Ed Sutherland]

Not to get in the middle of things ;), but I did check out the IceWM 
link (and ice-wm) and came away with two impressions --

1) The article (or something else related) made the point that a 
window-manager needs to be invisible. I agree. Once we have to think 
about the OS or window-manager, we begin wasting time. The closest I get 
to that experience is on Mac OS X, when everything is being nice.

2) Ice-wm is not intuitive enough for us point-and-clickers. As soon as 
I started IceWM, I wanted to make changes in how it looks. I know the 
configuration is held in a few short text files, but I would have 
appreciated clicking on a button and then changing the appearance and 
behavior.

Now, another question: is it just the heat, or am I crazy to consider 
using Mac OS 9.2.x for my work system? Mac OS X has all of the pretty 
bells-and-whistles, but is a bit top-heavy. I run 'top' after logging in 
and see nearly 300MB of RAM has already been taken. On the other hand, 
Linux is modern, but I'm forever fiddling with one setting or another 
just to keep things afloat -- a little like the guy I used to see on 'Ed 
Sullivan'  trying to keep several spinning plates from crashing to the 
floor.

Ed



Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Hamilton:
>
> Greg Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On 23/07/2004, at 12:40 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>> Several months ago we had a rip-roaring discussion on these lists 
>>> about the merits of various Window Managers and Desktop Environments 
>>> in Yellow Dog Linux.
>>
>>
>> And we all agreed that Gnome was the best. Now don't be starting 
>> anything, trouble maker.
>
>
> Who, me? :-)
>
> LOL!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
> (who still favors System 7 on a Mac SE: