"Gregory J. Barlow" wrote:
>
> 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.
I didn't mean it that way; I apologize. I simply meant that some people
would rather not deal with the added binary size and subsequent RAM
usage, let alone the CPU cycles necessary to make edge resistance work.
> 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.
I'm not sure that edge resistance falls under the 8-ways-clause,
actually, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. Things like having the icon
menu in a myriad of different locations can get absurd, and I agree with
you in that respect.
> NB: Feature suggestions always go over a lot better when one already has
> the necessary code written.
One of the best things about open-source development is that since the
code is reviewable, anyone with the skillset necessary can write a patch
to do anything they want to do. The license that Blackbox is released
under legally ensures this freedom. I, for one, do not have the
skillset to write an edge resistance patch, otherwise I would have done
it many months ago when I started using bb instead of wmaker.
Open-source programmers usually write code for the sole purpose of
scratching an itch, and I'm telling the rest of the bb community that I
have an itch that I simply can't scratch. I just want to keep it in the
forefront of everyone's collective minds that if such a bbpatch, I would
be the first in line to help it get tested. If nyz or morel decided
that the patch was up to par, easily configurable, didn't conflict with
other codebase changes, and didn't add a significant amount of ASCII to
the codebase, I'd be the Champion to get the patch committed to the base
tree.
I'm sure everyone is tired of this thread, and I've said my peace.
Remember; I love patches :).
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