-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [JNC - Forum] Fw: (FWD) developing a new display manager (updated announcement) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:36:36 +0800 From: Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> Reply-To: Internet governance related discussions <[email protected]> To: Internet governance related discussions <[email protected]>
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:27:05 +0800 From: Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> Subject: [JNC - Forum] (FWD) developing a new display manager (updated announcement) (FORWARDED MESSAGE): This one for the geeks only on this list. The machine I do most of my work on runs on two Linux distros: currently Debian 8.5 and Kubuntu 16.04 (these are the most stable versions, if you are curious about the numbers). I often switch between one and the other due to some unhappiness in some or other aspect of each. This unhappiness has reached what one might melodramatically call a "tipping point". So, I'm thinking of forming a group (not necessarily leading it...) to fork off a new "display manager" for Linux--something that is way beyond my programming as well as organizing skills. Let me explain. I've looked at many display managers, at one time or another, including Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, and a few others. Without exception, all of their designers show one infuriating flaw: the big egos of their main designers, who all think they have finally designed the world's best, most powerful, most intuitive screen/desktop design of all. And so they change the old design with their flavor-of-the-month (or -of-the-year) and waste all their previous users' efforts at mastering the previous ones. I already have a name for the fork I have in mind (non-negotiable--you have to accept it if you want to join the group). It will be called the QWERTY Desktop Manager (QDM). It's motto (negotiable) will be: "QWERTY is good enough for me. Any goddamned/bloody screen layout that has stayed popular long enough is also good enough for me. Just don't change the layout please!)" QDM will be described in blurbs as "the QWERTY of screen layouts". If you want to join my group (seriously !), subscribe to the discussion list [email protected]. Please circulate widely. Roberto Verzola [email protected] (END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE) _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mail.justnetcoalition.org/listinfo/forum -- Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mail.justnetcoalition.org/listinfo/forum
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