Am Sonntag, 24. April 2016 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:00:21AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 24. April 2016 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> > > > One more thing: I think this whole wm/de thing is a useless
> > > > distinction that never should have been made.
> > >
> > > The point at which I consider that it's no longer a window manager is
> > > when it starts to interfere with the conventions X set up. For
> > > example, when X's cut and paste stops working and you never know which
> > > cut-and-paste mechanism to use when copying from one window to another.
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> >
> > That would make TDE a window manager :-)
>
> Or at least not clearly not a window manager.
>
> -- hendrik

Which leads to the interesting point that "modern" DEs fail miserably on the "desktop"-element.

Nik



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