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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. Rhythmbox by luge · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    rhythmbox.

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    IAAL,BIANLY

  2. everything2.org by rwa2 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's what everything was designed to handle. I'm surprised they don't tout it as much, considering it was Rob and Hemo's pet project from a while back...

  3. Re:not so bad? by damiam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One of the aspects of a good troll is that it makes a few false statements for biters to correct. However, this one was a bit obvious...

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    It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
  4. Re:not so bad? by walt-sjc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Gourmet cereals? Ha! Now there's an oxymoron for ya. Fortune 500 running linux on the desktop? Metacity saved your business? Whoo boy... Whatcha been smokin? I want some.