On Saturday 04 May 2002 03:53, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 04-May-2002 Mr. Brigham Young wrote: > > There is a standard at play here and unless I hear someone say it > > doesn't matter then that also matters even though the quote received > > no comment. As far as the point about sloppy coding that is certainly > > true, but my point is that if you just want a window system to run X, > > then you just want a window system to run X. I have a very fast > > workstation at home and I can spare cycles for eye candy so I use > > windowmaker. My kid has a nearly identical computer but likes blackbox > > because it is noticably faster. > > I like speed. I like lean and clean. As much for the usability as for > the engineering aesthetic involved. Brad and I are working on making > the guts work better. Yes a few features are going to come in. Code > has to grow and change or it dies, just like living things.
Lean and mean is a requirement. If code doesn't perform well, it's not good code. Unfortunately, there is some software out there that just works, but not that well. As Sean says, we are fixing things up, making them cleaner, making them perform better. We've been doing profiling tests, running blackbox through memory debuggers, redesigning things that have been in blackbox since the day I started it... > But take me on my word, as long as I am hacking on blackbox the original > blackbox ideal of visual minimalism and leanness will be the guiding > force. And I can promise the same thing. Blackbox has one job, and we will stive to make it do that one job well. Of course, we will have to add to it to make it work better. -- Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway
