No kidding. To everyone who wants eye candy - go find an old Mac Quadra (any model) or a IIci. Load NetBSD/mac68k on it, and then compile BlackBox for it. I started playing with NetBSD on a IIci with 40Mb of RAM and a 33Mhz 68030 processor and BlackBox ran ok, but even xterms showed some lag. After that, I found a Quadra 800, clocked it up to 32Mhz (64Mhz) and loaded it with 48MB of RAM. It ran substantially better - but KDE was still not an option. BlackBox was very nice on this hardware though.
This was last year - I gave the machines away when I moved. There were a lot of guys who wanted this hardware, and the Mac68k port is still quite active. If you want eye candy, there are plenty of window managers that will get you going. If you have older hardware, but you don't want an ugly WM (like fvwm or twm), then BlackBox is a very beautiful alternative. In fact, in a lot of ways, I prefer BlackBox because of its simplicity. There is little to distract you. Seth Henry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Marco Fonseca Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:53 PM To: blackbox Mailing List Subject: Re: [BlackBox] I know I'm not supposed to like eyecandy, but... Imad Hussain wrote: >Hi! > >Alright, I know BlackBox isn't about frills and such, and I do agree with >that philosophy. However, recently I've been enticed by the dark side -- KDE. > >I'm sure I could be saved if I could find I way to modify the window >decorations to be similiar to the oh-so-good KDE "Web" borders. You know, >rounded edges, cute and clear buttons. However, all the BlackBox themes I can >find use the square edges. No one can resist -- at least not I! Can a >BlackBox theme be made that utilizes rounded window borders, or is that a >sacrifice that I must make? > >-- >Best, > >Imad Hussain > You can only like eyecandy when you have cycles to spare. When you work on something like a sparc 5, eyecandy just pisses you off... MarcoF
