<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 1/28/2016 at 6:01 PM, "Daniel M Gessel" <<a href="mailto:daniel@syntheticblue.com" class="">daniel@syntheticblue.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""> is there a 25 word reason for not using compiz/Unity?</blockquote></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for the replies!</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:lukefromdc@hushmail.com" class="">lukefromdc@hushmail.com</a> wrote:<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Too different from the traditional Win95 layout for many power users, and<br class="">all desktop environments optimized for one fullscreened app at a time are<br class="">poorly suited to running multiple media applications with drag and drop<br class="">between them. <br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I’ve run fast and far from windows on purpose... I keep getting told to use DX on Windows for graphics programming to get at the latest GPU features - having been in that industry, I know that, yes, Win gets the attention, but I can’t do that to myself again!</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So there is an orientation for the installed window manager/environment to be "Win95 like"?</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">/Jimmy wrote:</div></div><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Resources. When I do audio or video work I want as much of the computer's<br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">resources available as possible for that specific purpose. I've even<br class="">changed to dwm instead of xfce and after login it use like 120 MB. Logging<br class="">into Unity use above 1GB. To me that's just wasting my computer power on<br class="">nothing. But to you it might better as you use touch.<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is switching window managers considered typical usage in Ubuntu-Studio, or is the goal to be “configured right” at install? DWM looks like a nice option based on what I see about resource usage and tight code size. I like “less is more".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo-Regular" class="">Ralf Mardorf mentioned that the WM was “subject to change”. Would part of the team like to see DWM on install?</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Touch+pen enhancements might be a good project for me - I’ve always wanted to do pen-based interface design and touch is now appealing; I expect I’d have to dive into the whole SW stack (input drivers to applications) - including the window manager - DWM’s simplicity is appealing as a start point.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>