On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, after beating gile to a bloody pulp, Andy Kopciuch
wrote:
> If people are so unhappy with the way things currently have been developed
> in regards to blackbox, and it's applications, here's a couple of things
to
> think about:
>
> First the are not that many bb apps out there anyway. They all have
> direct links from bb's web site, so it's not hard to find.
dl/compile/install.
> This takes little to no time, and you only put in what you want.
If you're that damn unahappy about what is going on with Blackbox: Find
Another Window Manager! Blackbox was NOT designed to cater to everyone's
wants and desires.
> If people are still gung-ho about these things ... The software is open
> source. Go ahead and make whatever changes you want, combine the apps
> directly into bb source, change the makefile options, do whatever your
> little hearts desire. You can call it orangecircle and put it on your
website
> for download.
I'd prefer GreyCube(TM) :-)
> If people really want it that bad they can download it. IMO people
> probably won't download it, and that would say something too. But
> don't voice all of the dislikes and expect the maintainers to modify
> bb to a new dimension that is the complete opposite of blackbox's
> intent. If you still have any doubt about the purpose of blackbox
> read the home page of the website.
Exactly. That's the ideology behind open-source software. You can add what
you want and take out what you don't. The software was originally written
because Brad felt like it (as far as I can tell).
> Blackbox is fine the way it is: fast and light. Everything else is second
> to that.
..and that is why I still use it. I'm a hacker (and a total asshole), and
dicking around with the window manager / desktop environment is not
something I want to do. If I had the time, I'd have a complete native port
to Win32 (I have to code for that platform, it sucks :-(), just so I'd have
a useful system.
(And to think, this might be insightful... heh heh)
--gile
--
People are People
So why should it be
That you and I should get along so awfully?
