Re: [packages] gtk+, glib, imlib

[Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Jehan wrote:

> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Tho I can't quite understand
> > what this driving desire for a rootless X server is all about?  To my
> > death, I'll never understand why people like the explorer window manager
> > over the X alternatives.  I mean c'mon people, Windows Explorer as a
> > window manager sucks.  Why would you want it to manage your X
> > applications?

Full ACK.

> Now, having an alternative would be nice, that's for sure. As my boss is
> fond of saying: "two is better than one". If you want to remove Windows
> Explorer, go check Shellfront (http://shellfront.org/). But you will
> never see Notepad running in an X window. Cygwin works *on top of*
> Windows, not the other way around. Cygwin *add* a unix layer to Windows,
> it doesn't *replace* Windows. If you really want that, if you really
> want your All-X desktop, go install Linux and run your Windows
> applications using Wine.

You just pointed me to a long forgotten thing. Wine has a display driver,
which exports all GDI calls to X11. Maybe some freak will port it to windows
and I can use Windowsapplications remote :)

bye
     ago
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