various menus when you click on the desktop, etc. But the main thing you get is consistent, stable behaviour and speed, speed, speed. It
The thing is, kwin only takes a couple of seconds to start or stop too. What takes the time is the rest of it: the session manager restarts my prefered application set; the panel starts my applets; something (dunno what!) starts my mixer, klipper (which many people curse but I couldn't do without), alarm monitor, power management daemon and so on. I use all this stuff.
takes seconds to start Icewm and seconds to shutdown. Programs start fast and run fast. The menus are easy to understand and customize
My email client of choice is kmail. My web browser is konquerer. My file manager is konqueror too. My news reader is knode. None of these will start or run any faster if I run them under GNOME or IceWM or anything else. And if I choose to replace them with smaller, lighter components, I loose the integration. There doesn't seem to be a happy medium. I was hoping GNOME2 might be it, but it appears not, or not yet at least. -- 3:50pm up 49 days, 7:56, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.06, 0.01