So, to distract from the off-topic flamewars, I thought I'd pick the
brains here on my current musings of the week relating to things of a
graphical nature, heh. This is off-topic, but I would like people to think
of this in the spirit of Slack.

Given the licensing changes with XFree86, what do people think will happen
with the XWin system in future versions of Slackware? I'd imagine of any
of the distros, Slack would be most likely to chose a robust alternative,
even if it means switching to a different project that may not be as well
recognized. I'd go more in depth, but I won't because I haven't really
come to any concrete conclussions and I know this is a group of people
most likely to mention something I haven't thought of, so I'll leave this
as an open-ended musing.

I've also been mucking about with "alternative" window managers like
Fluxbox and Openbox and I'm wondering why there's such a promotion of
Gnome and KDE in Slack (by promotion I refer to their mention on the disk
set label and such). Neither seems to be of great quality. I am
dissatisfied with the bloat of Gnome and have never really liked the feel
of KDE either. I used to prefer Enlightenment but of course there's the
library issues in current Slack. I'm rambling a bit but the point of my
musing is why Gnome/KDE (other than the name recognition) instead of one
of these "alternative" managers which could be argued to be technically
superior? Or to express it differently, if we were to present Pat with a
list of "our favorite WMs", why would you include a WM on the list and
what makes you chose it over Gnome/KDE?

Boy, I feel a bit like the Church Lady with the "talk amongst yourselves"
bit, heh.