Re: Desktop environment vs Window Managers

From: mjt (mjtobler_at_removethis_mail.ru)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:42:37 -0600

(AT <notme@example.com>) scribbled:

> 3. a desktop environment gives you, among other things, the desktop
> metaphor, ie. you can put stuff on the desktop (background) which you
> can't do with the previously mentioned layers.

... a desktop goes beyond this "placing things on the desktop"
functionality. i'm using icewm right now, which is NOT a desktop,
and i've got icons all over the left side of the desktop.

a 'desktop' is the integration of the windowing system with
underlying system utilities and includes the integration of
other desktop components within the desktop environment
(this is DCOP's main function in kde). 

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