050117 Patrick Lauer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 07:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 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
> cld u pls use cmplt sntnc? 't s hard 2 reed otherwize.
> kthnxbye,

what on earth are you talking about ?
every one of my sentences has a verb & all the words are spelled in full.
i have used  2  standard abbreviations, 'c' = 'approximately'
& 'eg' = 'for example'.  really, this is a disgusting response
to my attempt to provide intelligent feedback to a developer's request.
who are you ?  what qualifications do you have to criticise English ?
are you even a native speaker ?  your name suggests otherwise.

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