Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 21, 2002 @08:38AM from the sawfish-works-nicely-though dept.

Cardhore writes: "According to this article, Sun's and Wipro's developers are now working on Metacity, instead of Sawfish. Metacity and Sawfish are two window managers for the GNOME desktop, and Sun has decided to use Metacity over Sawfish for GNOME 2. This decision has been based on issues such as accessibility, maintainability of the code [1], documentation, multi-head support and a general eagerness from the community to commit to Metacity in the future." Here's a brief description of Garret LeSage's experience with Metacity, which is described here as a "boring window manager for the adult in you." Anyone with Metacity screenshots, please post below :)

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Re:Just more wasted effort and time by entrager · 2002-05-21 09:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Do you work for Microsoft by chance?
Re:Metacity screenshots, right here.. by Xerithane · 2002-05-21 10:59 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Shameless plugging of your site.. you have one metacity capture that is an offsite link. That's rather bad form, don't you have some VA hatemail to write?

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