Keith Matthews wrote:
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
Integration is a good goal! ...
Depends how it is done. What worries me is the statement 'more integrated with Linux' - wine runs (or should do) on BSDs as well where there are already problems. Any work that made things worse is undesirable.
IMHO integration should be pursued via standards like those at http://www.freedesktop.org, not by linking in huge, not-quite-portable desktop libraries. I want Wine, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop environments to use common data formats for things like icons and menus, and thereby give users freedom from being locked into any one desktop package (or operating system).
(That said, I have nothing against a kernel module for wineserver, if it has significant benefits. We can always use the userspace implementation as a fallback, and the module should be small enough that we could maintain it for both Linux and BSD. Come to think of it, maybe we could use the PEACE project's win32 kernel stuff on BSD instead of writing a new one.)
There are also a growing number of people getting upset about the resource requirements of the window managers and wanting to go back to fvwm and the like. There was a thread recently on uk.comp.os.linux by someone who was not happy with the performance of Gnome or KDE on a PIII-500.
I'm with you there. I run very primitive window managers on several of my machines because I can't stand the overhead of KDE and Gnome.