050106 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 6 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote re 'bbpager': >> this works perfectly well on my system: >> i'm have it running at the moment. > Those marked as "doesn't work" don't work on my system, > which is a fair indication > that they won't work on some other systems either.
it's a fair indication that there may be something wrong with your system. all of the Blackbox items i noted compiled, installed & have been running without any problems at all on my system, which is upto-date & mainline. i have been using Blackbox as my everyday desktop manager for c 6 weeks & have found it utterly reliable, certainly more so than Xfce4 was. > I'm not claiming that they're universally totally broken. good. again: all you know is that they don't work on your own system. >> don't assume that all apps are being developed all the time. >> some are simple & just work, so no-one spends time "improving" them: >> that's probably the case with most of the items you list above > and some apps are so pointless and broken that they get abandoned. obviously, but you've offered no reason to include any of the items which i listed as fully usable in that category. Blackbox & the add-ons i use are neither pointless nor broken in any way; Blackbox itself is being actively developed by Brian Hughes at Trolltech, with a new version 0.70 due out in the near future. >> eg can you refer to any open bugs involving any of them ? > Do a bugsearch for stuff assigned to commonbox@, no, you do one yourself: you're the one making extraordinary claims, which don't seem to match anyone else's experience. > several of the above have bugs open. are you refering to any of the pieces which i listed as usable ? > But then, several of the above that won't even compile > *don't* have open bugs, showing how few people care. what an extraordinary statement ! you think a lack of bug reports shows that no-one cares about a package ??? this is wasting my time, if not yours & other people's. i suggest you keep the pieces i have pointed out are fully usable -- blackbox bbconf bbkeys bbpager bbrun commonbox-utils -- & any others which other people have said they use & drop the remainder. if you are simply feeling overworked, the correct approach is to say so explicitly & honestly & ask for someone to volunteer to take over some of your tasks. i've already offered to consider maintaining the 6 packages above myself, depending on what is required & what skills i can contribute or learn. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
