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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I want my twm! by Limburgher · 2002-05-21 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Re:not so bad? by MadFarmAnimalz · 2002-05-21 09:11 · 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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