Haiku's Window Manager

Professor Cool Linux writes "From IsComputerOn: Adi, over at DarkWyrm's page, has posted a progress status of Haiku's window manager, and the good news is that it's almost complete. They have, for example, support for normal, floating app/subset/all and model app/subset/all windows, as well as workspace support. All that's left are smaller things like not allowing windows to be moved or resized and focus follow mouse (among a few others) remain to be implemented still. But along with the status report, Adi was kind enough to post a plethora of screenshots, showing many examples of how the window manager is working. Full report and the screenshots."

Comments

Re:ok, the point being?

[MrHanky]

Isnt this what makes Linux so hard to work with some times, is that code has to be 'ported' to different window managers?

No. You can run the same apps in WindowMaker, IceWM, Gnome, KDE, and so on. No porting required. This is well known, and the fact that you've been modded up just shows that Slashdot is no longer a nerd site. Why do you come here anyway?

This windowmanager, however, isn't for X11 and Linux, it's for Haiku, the BeOS clone. So in this case, X11 apps would need porting to BeOS to be used there.

Why dont these projects just work together and make one really good window manager instead of several 'pretty' good ones?

Some people prefer BeOS to Linux. It would be rather strange if they decided to scrap their clone project to contribute to KDE instead, when the goals of the KDE project are radically different. Likewise, a lot of people prefer KDE to BeOS, and they obviously see no point in contributing to Haiku. You do understand that if people with very different goals tried to make a project together, it wouldn't work at all?

Re:For those who dont know

[Lord Bitman]

That wasnt "insightful", it was a fucking question. God damn, moderators are stupid. I'm not trying to be clever, I want to know why I should care. Anyone who knows, please answer.