From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MHOVG-0006rA-J4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:46:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C612E027D; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.sgi.com [192.48.156.57]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B99BE027D for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [150.166.39.100]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FEEAC01E for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id n5IKkVlB030964 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:31 -0700 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n5IKkVf2006416 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id n5IKkVju006213 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:31 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager? Message-ID: <20090618204631.GA6395@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <5bdc1c8b0906170553w3b73c15ehd1b8cacaaf52c7c4@mail.gmail.com> <4A3A4A91.5010204@virtadpt.net> <5bdc1c8b0906180923j5e794b4fpdc7bf6d01d17bd63@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906180959x130bca86yf3bd30364f2f23ab@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906181005w7c7fe9e9q5c5f6c404046f392@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0906181111qc6a119eg8c5c42455ce1b1f5@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0906181343v1b6b6803iad4fdaaacf9d51d3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0906181343v1b6b6803iad4fdaaacf9d51d3@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: f700a92b-9f67-42b7-9108-1de7d02f7fba X-Archives-Hash: 858d1860783cadf83b48caa00633a707 Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: > > Question gets down to how does one make a decision? Not sure about > any performance metrics. Look and feel is obviously a part of it. > Depth of support - email (good) and forums (not so good for me). > Does it work for you? Do you hit some limit that irritates you that spoils the experience? All the rest - Depth of support, forums, etc. don't mean anything if you're constantly irriated whenever you use it. Bob -