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From:	"Collin Grady" <cgrady AT willamette DOT edu>
To:	"Mark Jones" <mark_umr AT excite DOT com>, "Cygwin ML" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: WM
Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:51:39 -0800
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     KDE and xfce work in Cygwin ;)  The second link is a guy trying to get
Gnome working in Cygwin.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kde-cygwin/
http://my.dreamwiz.com/jbdoll/
     -Collin Grady

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jones" <mark_umr AT excite DOT com>
To: "Stephano Mariani" <sk DOT cygml AT btinternet DOT com>; "Charles Wilson"
<cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug


> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> >  To: "Mark Jones" <mark_umr AT excite DOT com>
> >  Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> >  Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 6:34 PM
> >  Subject: Re: New Install May Have a Bug
> >
> >
> >  > Concommitant with that, the default installation is now a bare
minimum
> >  > of packages -- if you want more, you have to explicitly select the
> >  > additional packages.
>
> First, thanks for the reply.
>
> I understand the reasoning behind the choice, but I would suggest adding a
> little more to the standard of minimum.  Users of any UNIX like system
> expect more/less to be present.  I think it will turn people off, and
Linux
> users that install it will figure the install failed to work properly
(like
> my friend and I did) or will think Cygwin just doesn't have less or more
> ported over to it and assume that Cygwin is not mature yet.
>
> That is my thoughts on the matter.
>
> As I side note, I would have something other than TWM be the default WM
for
> X, anything other than TWM, such as IceWM, FVWM, lesstif's MWM, etc.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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