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sindi keesan wrote:
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> Would it make any sense to continue using swm in 
> the floppy disk version

Yes.

> but icewm as default in the loop version? 

No.  The two versions of BL3 will remain the same.

> Either one can install to HD ext2 partition, you said.

Yes.

> Could the icewm installation script offer the chance 
> to remove swm to save space?  

You do realize that swm is just 18kb ?

> I presume it would modify .xinitrc anyway.

The icewm package modifies ~/.xinitrc to boot icewm
instead of swm.

> You could make icewm smaller by not offering a choice 
> of themes, 

I've already reduced the size of icewm in the package.  
Even the smallest possible icewm is ten times larger 
than swm.

> and not include X clock and calculator.  

Those have nothing to do with the choice of wm.  Those 
are applications.  I could certainly remove applications
to make room for a (much) bigger wm, but the purpose of
the applications is to give people a selection of things
to do with their GUI.

BTW the X clock in BL3 is just 9kb in size.  This is 
trivial compared to the hundreds of kb needed for icewm.

> There are smaller console programs for those 

You'd be hard pressed to find a console program that puts 
a nice clock on the screen for 9kb.

BL3 has many utilities and applications under 20kb in size.
You could remove all of them (reducing functionality by a
significant amount) and still not have room for icewm.  
Don't get me wrong:  compared to KDE and Gnome, icewm is 
small.  But in the context of BL3, icewm is too big to be
the default wm.

> I think you included a console calculator program - 

dc

> was it in BL3?

Yes.  Such console utilities are particularly important for
systems with insufficient resources to run X.  Even though
BL3 includes X, it also provides a lot of CLI functionality
for low-RAM and slow-CPU systems.

Cheers,
Steven

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