Red hat 8.0

[John Abreau]

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Jason Stephenson <jason at sigio.com> writes:

> I use it on my laptop and don't really care. I'm not into pretty GUI 
> things for the most part, so it doesn't bother me. I don't use my laptop 
> enough to bother changing it. Though, I do have my root desktop very 
> simple: no window manager and a xterm as the controlling process.

The thing that annoyed me most with metacity was the inability to 
configure
it to lower a window by right-clicking the titlebar. When I finally got 
around to googling for a solution, I found the author saying that as far 
as he's concerned. 90% of users won't care, and therefore nobody really 
wants that feature. And when complaints persisted, he'd dismiss them with 
an offhand comment that he's seen thousands of complaints like that, and 
each new complaint is the exact same thing and therefore just a waste of 
his time to read. Even after admitting this, it seems he persists in 
claiming that "nobody really wants that feature".

The really aggravating part is that Redhat seems to have made a 
significant
effort to make it difficult to switch back to sawfish. In the end, I had 
to kill off metacity and quickly start sawfish before metacity respawned, 
and then save the gnome session, a procedure I consider inherently 
fragile.
It's like Redhat was saying 

    "If you don't *LIKE* metacity, you don't have to *USE* gnome."

Kind of reminds me of the Windows Refund crap where manufacturers would 
tell customers: "If you don't want Windows on your laptop, you don't have 
to buy a laptop at all".

The GUI for switching window managers was replaced with one that only lets 
you choose between gnome, kde, windowmaker, and twm. Yet another roadblock 
to try to keep metacity in place. 


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