050116 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Desktop-WM > Lead: Brandon HAle > Only 12 bugs open here, nothing very high priority, > Controversial issue: > SuperLag has agreed to solve any problems that crop up with Openbox > and ciaranm still faithfully maintains Fluxbox. > Blackbox, however, lacks an interested maintainer for the aging WM > and its numerous accessory packages. These aren't in much distress, > but they aren't getting any newer. Ciaran has mentioned several times > that we should consider removing this. > Possible user outcry, we need a way to gauge use somehow.
i've recently had a debate with CM on this subject (see this list). i've been using Blackbox for c 2 months & find it utterly stable: i use packages blackbox bbconf/keys/pager/run commonbox-utils/styles ; there are no outstanding bugs of any importance on any of these packages. there is activity on the Blackbox user/dev mailing-lists & a new version of Blackbox itself -- 0.70 -- is promised shortly. the principal maintainer seems to be an employee of Trolltech, which produces Qt, on which Blackbox is based. i suggest Blackbox is like eg Lynx, Vim & Mutt in being a mature product, which needs little maintenance, but continues to be used quietly by users. of course, it needs a Gentoo developer to take responsibility for it & CM is clearly not the man to do that, but it shouldn't be a big burden. HTH -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
