Bug#443119: Please add openbox among the window managers depended on

[Jordi Mallach]

Ciao Enrico,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:42:37PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> gnome is working really quite well with openbox, so I'd like to
> deinstall metacity from my system.  However, I can't as gnome-core
> depends on it.
> 
> If there is no problem with it, openbox could be added together with
> metacity and sawfish.

The consensus in our team is that the GNOME metapackages only include
the official components of upstream releases. Right now, there is an
alternative to Metacity due to historical reasons, as Sawfish once was
GNOME's window manager.

I think we'd be more willing to get rid of that alternative altogether
than opening the door to a dozen alternative requests if we add OpenBox.
There are more WMs in Debian which "work" with GNOME; only Metacity is
actively developed by GNOME right now, though.

Jordi
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