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Sun Drops Sawfish for Metacity

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. I want my twm! by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to be able to do almost nothing, but FAST!

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  2. Re:GNOME 2.0 Desktop Screenshot by Hornsby · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope that there's a way to scale down those icons. Personally, I can't stand having a desktop that looks like it was drawn with crayola crayons.

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  3. That sucks for Sawfish by Anti-Microsoft+Troll · · Score: 0, Funny

    Especially after Hallie Berry showed her knockers in it.

  4. not so bad? by tps12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay, I know the Linux/slashbot response to this is, "how dare they?" and "I want my eye candy!" Well, I was right with you for a while.

    But now I'm thinking: for Linux and OSS to succeed on the desktop and in a high-impact profit-oriented enterprise environment, we need a sober, powerful, stable desktop.

    I'm an admin at a Fortune 500 company in the gourmet cereals industry. We have a daily need for responsive and robust desktop software, and Metacity has repeatedly stepped up to the plate and delivered where inferior technology such as Gnome and Sawfish could not.

    Metacity saved our business. Maybe it will save slashdot, too.

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    1. Re:not so bad? by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Metacity saved our business. Maybe it will save slashdot, too

      Let's get one thing clear; metacity is not Jesus, allright?

      And if it took a new window manager to save your company, then I need its name. I'm worried I might be a stockholder.

      :-)

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  5. Re:Reason for the switch. by snake_dad · · Score: 3, Funny
    and it is apparently quite usable since many people sue it.

    That's an interesting view on usability... :)

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  6. Re:Metacity screenshots, right here.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Themes.org... because Bowie J. Poag is still an idiot!

  7. Re:Definitely from the WRONG "dept." by luge · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) I won't link directly, because in this case, it's a Bad Thing(TM), but go check Bugzilla for Sawfish... it's a nasty sight.
    Many, many, many thanks ;)

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  8. Re:Reason for the switch. by mikael · · Score: 3, Funny

    > niche codebase involving fairly obscure stuff (X)
    Oh My God!

    A windowmanager that involves X, what's next? An text editor that opens (gasp!) text-files?

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  9. Re:Pronounciation by pyite · · Score: 3, Funny

    because... there's... no... spelling... flowers?

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  10. Re:Rhythmbox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure they copied the interface, but because it's running on Unix, it ended up looking like ass. So no harm done.