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no longer lgpl
by jamesw - May 7th 2007 12:58:02
The license is no longer covered by the LGPL as indicated in LICENSE:
"The code of this project is "essentially" licensed under
the LGPL, version 2.1, unless otherwise indicated in components taken from
elsewhere. It is reproduced below. Additionally, the following terms apply
to the use of the names Ion, Ion3, and other derived names:"
There are additional terms which restrict the license and are in conflict
with it.
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Re: no longer lgpl
by Michael Shigorin - May 7th 2007 13:14:33
I guess no longer interesting (from a debian bug posted).
Good luck, $AUTHOR.
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Michael Shigorin
mike SOMEWHERE AT altlinux PLUS DOT org
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Re: no longer lgpl
by Vlad Dogaru - Jan 4th 2008 02:38:25
I actually find the change of license good: I was so darn obsessed with Ion
that I was failing to realise there are much better pieces of software
(wmii and xmonad to name two). Only after I read about the strange
licensing terms did I get up to try something else.
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Really nice
by René van Bevern - May 12th 2004 09:51:26
I have first tried ion in 2001 because i had a computer without a mouse.
But I dropped it because i didn't find it as extensible as fvwm. With ion2
that changed, the power of lua is great. Handling ion is very comfortable
and its code is very clear, so that it was an easy task to modify it to get
it adapted to the broken areas of my laptop display. :)
Big compliment to the authors! :>
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Great wm
by Joel Kaasinen - Feb 3rd 2004 03:14:52
I had been using twm with two xterms and a lynx open and screen, and I
never moved the windows. Then I heard of Ion from a guy. I tried it and
have been happy ever since.
It's very light, even works on my 133mhz pentium :)
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cheers,
J
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impressed
by Sand Jack - Nov 19th 2003 16:58:37
Color me impressed re: ion. It fills all of my window manager needs. It's
upped my productivity.
And it fits on a floppy, folks.
I've looked through the site and noticed discussion of the impracticality
of creating a Dock Bar that works with Ion. Let me offer my own two cents.
What I would do if i had the time to get my elbows into the code is to
allow someone to designate a single frame as the 'working frame' with a
keystroke and to remove that designation with another. A working frame
would function as a full screen, and any workspace someone switched to
would be pulled up within that frame, probably scaling to fit.
Trying to load a workspace into a working frame would result in the
working frame designation being dropped automatically.
In this way, a person can set up several applets, etc, in frames on the
same workspace as the working frame duplicating the effects of a dock. If
you wanted to get really fancy you could also have a special dock handler
that makes sure things load into the right places at startup. You could
also, however, leave one or two of these blank so as to have space to
stick.
It's not perfect, but it's the only way I see to make a sticky-windows
concept that is consistent with the look-and-feel of Ion.
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Care with mouse managed applications
by Guilhem BONNEFILLE - Jun 6th 2002 03:32:53
As other comments, I find the ideas of ION really interresting and
productive.
But, after some day of use in office, I noticed that some applications
couldn't be used in this WM (eg.: framemaker^(TM)). This applications
expect some feature of the WM that ION doesn't have.
So, my conclusion is use ION as you can, it's really a good WM, but care
with applications that use lot of mouse actions.
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best wm ever
by erkules - Nov 28th 2001 02:03:32
very easy to configure. this wm gave me maximum space for my xterms. you
shouldn't use the default-settings. with a minimum of time you configure
the shortcuts the way you think they should work. giving you a fast and
logic wm.
tschazu
erkules
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Recommended
by dmelomed - Sep 26th 2001 18:17:24
This is certainly the best time saver of a window manager I've found. If
you are sitting all day in X moving windows around, this will definitely
save you time once you get acquainted with keystrokes. No more search for
hidden windows, and they can be organized by topic in frames. Furthermore,
windows can be moved with the mouse between frames. This WM is similar to
"larswm", but IMHO easier to use and configure.
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Re: Recommended
by Avi Y - Dec 3rd 2002 04:04:45
PWM was much better...
dealing with popups and transient windows is poor.
i don't like the concept.
PLEASE, resume the development of PWM !!
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avi Y
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Re: Recommended
by tuomov - Apr 28th 2003 08:17:46
> PLEASE, resume the development of PWM !!
The development of PWM has not been abandoned, only the two window
managers are in the progress of being unified. PWM will eventually be
implemented on top of 'ioncore' by loading floatws and menu modules.
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