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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 :)

6 of 447 comments (clear)

  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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Re:Pronounciation by pyite · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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