[qvwm-e:00358] Re: qvwm development

I agree with Ben on thie issue of being lean and fast as KDE and Gnome 
have bothe become bloated in my opinion.

What I need for the GUI this project is this:

1. a Linux desktop that has possibly only to initial themes that look 
similar as possible to Windows 2000 or even better, XP. I have lookat 
MANY desktop managers including XPde (still in early alpha), the 
regulars, fvwm95, and qvwm (which I like best  so far).

2. modifications to qvwm that would allow for a user ".qvwm" (or some 
new name if I can be allowed to take over the project from qvwm) 
directory and inside that directory maybe another that holds the 
"file.lnk" and sub-directories to define menu items, desktop items, etc.

All of this is only a portion of the GUI system in a new specialized 
Linux distro that is being developed called InterCruise and that I 
invite all of you to join in the work as soon as I can get the site 
loctaion and a few other details worked out. This distro is meant to 
"hopefully" compete with MS Windows and provide existing Windows users a 
smooth transition over to Linux and also to eliminate all (most) if the 
current problems that people have with windows as Linux will be the 
backend.  Plus some amazing new idea that should blow the doors wide 
open for Linux to be used much more by current Windows users. 

I know there have been other projects along this line, but I can assure 
you that the world has not seen anything like InterCruise and it time to 
bring it to life. In my opinion.

Still many pieces to put together but the idea is sound and it should be 
a great project that I hope can turn into a main stream distro like 
Redhat, or Mandrake.

I can tell you all more details later if you are interested.  Right now, 
I just wanted to check into directions that can be taken for qvwm 1 or 2 
as an initial GUI platform and themes.

will try to contact the developers directly to see about moving the qvwm 
project into one project of the InterCruise system and revitalizing the 
qvwm effort.

Cheers,
Lonnie
Thanks all,
Lonnie

Ben Ford wrote:

> Chris Sorenson wrote:
>
>> Trying to develop something against the installed base of Gnome/KDE 
>> is too intimidating. I mean, that's millions of lines of tested code 
>> installed on tens of thousands of desktops. That's a tough nut to 
>> crack, ya know? ;)
>
>
> Maybe so . . . but have you ever tried to run either of those on a 
> lightweight machine?  No way.  QVWM is a lean, mean wm and it runs 
> great.  All it needs is a little work to bring it up to modern 
> standards . . . update the tray to use the freedesktop.org spec, work 
> in the notification libraries, etc.  Maybe a few external apps for 
> configuration.  Not a lot at all.
>
> -b
>