Christopher Browne wrote in message news:<2t62t4F1qq8ecU4@uni-berlin.de>...
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Jennifer Smith wrote:
> > I don't get all the fuss about it. Use Dropline Gnome and be done with it.
> > Personally I'd say drop KDE too. If people want either WM they can get
> > Gnome via Dropline, and KDE via Konstruct.
>
> Neither Gnome nor KDE are window managers.
>
> They are correctly characterized either as:
>
> a) Application frameworks, or
> b) Applications created using those frameworks.

"Application frameworks". "Applications created using those
frameworks" are Gnome/KDE applications.

Maybe the annoying confusion around the term "window manager" stems
from the fact many so-called WM's provide functionalities that have
little or nothing to do with window management?