[663] in athena10
Re: set skip_foo; window managers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Dec 2 16:53:24 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:51:35 -0500
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:02 -0500, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> Support:
>> skip_xss
>
> This is technically problematic, since the screensaver is now started
> through gnome-session and not the system dotfiles.
Fine, let's desupport it.
>> skip_nautilus:
>
> This would also be problematic to support, since nautilus is started
> through gnome-session.
Let's desupport skip_nautilus too.
>> That also brings us to the question of how we want to deal with
>> window
>> managers.
>
> I would recommend installing all of the window manager packages we can
> identify, but not making any effort to support them beyond that.
Well, the problem is that someone who is using a window manager in
combination with skip_nautilus and skip_panel is going to be very sad
the first time they log in to an Athena 10 machine, and vtwm.gamma
presents them with a giant "Desktop" window which covers everything.
skip_nautilus made pre-GNOME window managers a bit more friendly. If
we're going to punt skip_nautilus and skip_pannel, I think we should
also stop honoring WINDOW_MANAGER, and people should be forced to take
explicit action to re-customize their Athena 10 session.
-Jon
