Edward Muller writes:
> Agreed, but we do need a WM and standard WM menus would suck on a PDA, by
> putting all of the menus (think just the foot portion of a Gnome desktop) in a
Supposedly, the gnome panel tells its applets how big they're supposed
to be. So while they're 64x64 on a desktop, they could be 16x16 on a PDA.
> It would be nice to create an environment on the iPAQ that uses Linux as it's
> core, X Windows as its windowing system, gtk as the widget set and scripting
> Language XYZ as the main built in supported language...
Of course, the Transvirtual people will say that they've skipped
directly from Linux at its core to Java as the main built-in supported
language, and left out the cruft in the middle. :) Not that I agree
with them.
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