On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
> 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.
I know about all the features and I care very much about not adding too
many. Calling me either ignorant or apathetic is insulting.
Let me be clear, I am all for features, else I would be using twm. I just
don't like feature creep. The problem with people asking for more and
more features is that the features available are not organized and
cohesive. I was glad that the 6x.x series was approached the way it was
because it was an effort to redefine to some degree the way the user
interacted with the window manager. That makes perfect sense to
me. Throwing in features because they are nice to have doesnt. I like
features that make the window manager more efficient (middle click
workspace menu) but being able to do the same thing 8 different ways
doesnt make sense to me.
NB: Feature suggestions always go over a lot better when one already has
the necessary code written.
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ...
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue"
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