On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Yeah, I know - all that sounds pretty pessimistic. And I always feel pretty
> > sad, when it comes to that topic. GGI is "my baby" more than any other open
> > source project. And there is quite some blood, sweat and tears I and several
> > other people put into it, so it really hurts to see it fall in decay. I'm
> > pretty busy these days juggling two jobs, so I don't have so much time left
> > to work on GGI. While this is bad for GGI, it helps a little to distract me
> > from my "broken heart" about the project's state.
>
> I totally dissagree. GGI has just recently become extremely useable. I use
> it every day, from things to playing 3-monitor quake (i.e. midget wars ;) to
> running multiple X servers. Running these things, is uncovering some kernel
> bugs. (USB support was implementing scheduling wrong, and would OOPS (think
> it's fixed now), the matrox fbdev stopped recognizing a second matrox card
> somewhere between 2.4.0-test5 and 2.4.0-test6, etc) I'm not shure if the
> "computer hangs when switching VC's" is the kernels fault or libGGI's, but
> i plan to start deploying GGI on every system i touch as soon as these bugs
> are fixed.
AFAIK someone tested GGI even with 8 monitors. I forgot, who did that... sorry.
> Even sunday i had someone telling me about playing quake in text mode... that
> had the scent of GGI all over it :) so somebody's using it.
Textmode? Are you sure? Can you post me a screenshot, please?
(jpeg, if possible)
> I do realize that i am probably one of the most intensive users of GGI, but
> from where i sit, i have trouble imagining how people will be able to live
> without it soon.
Try to convince these people. Splitted suffering means half suffering... :-))
> > But maybe some folks here would like to cheer me up a little ?
> >
> > What GGI needs is a driving force. Look at the mailing list. It's quiet.
> > Really quiet.
>
> I personally avoid posting to the list whenever possible.
Why? Imagine: You have a good idea, and you won't discuss it on the ML, then it
may go away... And that is even worse than a bug, because every good idea may
improve GGI a lot.
Don't be affraid, you are writing crap. Noone bites you. :-)
> I don't want everyone to tire of me too quickly, so just post when it's
> important.
Please rethink.
CU,
Christoph Egger
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