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Iirc, Gnome didn't have a dedicated WM for the longest time. for a while Rasterman (of Enlightenment fame) was working for Red Hat and Gnome used Enlightenment
by digi_owl 10y ago
Iirc, Gnome didn't have a dedicated WM for the longest time.
for a while Rasterman (of Enlightenment fame) was working for Red Hat and Gnome used Enlightenment as their WM.
But there came to a disagreement between Rasterman and the Gnome devs about where things were going, and he left Red Hat and started working on turning Enlightenment into a full DE.
Not long after i think we started seeing various WMs being bundled with Gnome, culminating in some that used composition and OpenGL to render the desktops as sides of a cube.
After that it seems that everyone involved with the major DEs got hooked on eyecandy.
- chriswarbo 10y agoI've been using Linux exclusively since ~2001, and I used to keep going back to either E16, or Gnome+E16. It's fast, unobtrusive and strikes a nice balance between customisation/eye-candy and minimalism. These days I use tiling WMs (mostly XMonad), but if I were to go back to stacked then I'd probably end up with E16 after a while :)
- pdkl95 10y ago> It's fast, unobtrusive I'm still using an $ECONFDIR that was initially created in ~1997 for exactly that reason. Everything else is either missing features (windowmaker) or slow (everything else).