On 10 December 2011 17:12, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 10 December 2011 15:27:45 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>> Now that I could see as a simple yet very useful enhancement for
>> R14.0--the ability to configure/select the WM executable in kcontrol.
>> Can
>> you file a bug report requesting this ability?
> You know that such a configuration module exists and that there is no need
> to
> ask for the executable, right? You can just specify the desktop files. To
> be
> precise: you have to specify a desktop file as it won't work with a
> binary...
>
> Martin

Where?  At the very least it needs to be moved to a more logical place as
I have never seen it in the years that I have been using KDE/TDE.

And yes, I am fully aware of the internals of TDE and the fact that WMs
can be autodetected with the .desktop files.  I mentioned the end effect
(the user can choose which WM executable to use) to be precise.

Tim

Unfortunately .desktop files won't work for all WM's. I think it would be simpler to just have a command line option. this also makes it easy to use certain flags for your WM