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[edit] Edits

The edits from 213.78.88.220 are me, b.t.w.

  • Moved some sections around -- separated out the history from the description
  • Created a new page for the author's, and linked to that
  • Added a section on how to get started in windowmaker, for anyone looking at a default linux distro and wondering how to run it, or how to use it
  • Added a few useful programs that are pretty-much part of WindowMaker, such as configuration programs

Ojw 13:06, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Images

There are two problems with this article:

  1. It has way more images than necessary, as is, they only cluter the article and detract from the text.
  2. It displays horribly in Mozilla, some of the images are misaligned and overlap text. --Hetar 02:04, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Status?

Does anybody know the status of windowmaker?

There has not been an update in over a year now, and the mailing lists(or at least the online archives of them) appear to be down too. I'd really hate it if development on windowmaker has halted.... Liquidtenmillion 03:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

They had some server problems back then. Meanwhile given the project's goals there's not much more to develop. The FreeBSD port is steadily maintained, the latest update was less than a month ago.[1] Gwen Gale (talk) 11:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wprefs

Is it true that Wprefs is copyrighted and not GPL? --AndersL 06:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Software can be copyrighted and GPLed, and it does appear to be so. However, the graphical artwork isn't, according to this page, but it is released under the OpenContent License, --Cam.turn 04:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Windowmaker application menu.png

Image:Windowmaker application menu.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 12:16, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] December 2007

I added some history, lots of detail, info on a few more closely related apps, references, cleanup and so on. Gwen Gale (talk) 11:34, 12 December 2007 (UTC)