I hate it when I feel compelled to jump in on a thread like this...
"Gregory J. Barlow" wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, White Vampire wrote:
>
> > It is not that I do not agree, keeping Blackbox without bloat
> > /is/ good. I first started using Blackbox because I had limited
> > resources available. However, it seems like a lot of the attitude is
> > generally lacking in some regards. Perhaps that is because the list is
> > unmoderated? With that in mind, the list has surpisingly decent
> > content. (Comparing to how other lists would degrade without
> > moderation.. perhaps my statement is self-conflicting there.)
>
> You seem to want features _and_ a small and fast window manager. Those
> two things are not mutually exclusive, but close. In the 6x.x series,
> blackbox has added a large number of features and as a result, crashes
> more and uses more memory for me than it ever did before. Granted, I use
> a few of these features, but does anyone really use them all?
Greg, this is a question better suited to Philosophy than Mathematics,
but
the answer is, "Yes, everyone uses ALL of the features ALL of the
time." The
very fact that the features are there as an option (compile-time or
run-time)
requires that you excercise a bit of self-sufficiency and make a
decision.
Yes, some features are, as Brad puts it, Computationally Expensive, and
those
options are probably best left as a compile-time option; only those of
us who
/want/ the feature know enough to make it work and thereby only waste
our own
CPU cycles in the pursuit thereof. That way, those who are ignorant or
are
apathetic to the new features (like you) are spared the inconvenience.
Oh, and to those who think that binary-based Linux distros like Debian
and
RedHat don't have this choice, you're very wrong. I'm quite familiar
with
dpkg-buildpkg and `rpm --rebuild', and if you're not, you probably
shouldn't
be using a Free operating system.
> Why moderate this list? I am on plenty of other mailing lists, none are
> moderated. What would be the point of moderation, weeding out people who
> like blackbox the way it is or those who want more features than E?
Okay, another $0.02US; moderated mailing lists SUCK!
> --
> "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ...
> moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"
> - Barry Goldwater
Wow. Maybe you should change your signature...
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