Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >>> Well, lets list some of the most visible for 10.1 development: >>> Garry Ekker and Stanislav Brabec, GNOME packagers. >>> Robert Love, NetworkManager... You like it in 10.1, right? >>> Larry Ewing, f-spot ... working nicely. >>> Aaron Bockover, banshee ... working nicely and greatly enhanced for 10.1. >>> Jeffrey Steadfast, gnome-volume-manager ... greatly enhanced for 10.1. >>> Michael Meeks, OpenOffice_org ... nuff said. >>> Joe Shaw, beagle. >> You wisely left out "working nicely" for NetworkManager and beagle. > > Work perfectly for me.
I assume you are not using your laptop on battery? >> That's actually one of the problems of most GNOME projects. NIH leads >> to dozens of (re)implementations which are shipped once they somehow >> work (for varying definitions of "work") and, regardless of their >> brokenness, they replace old, working solutions. > > Total rubbush; Beagle doesn't replace anything, nothing provided > equivalent functionality before. Not even close. Anyone who thinks it > replaces 'find file' has clearly never actually used Beagle. Once upon a time, the findutils-locate package provided very similar services. It was dropped because it used too many resources. Then, quite a while later, beagle came, used ten times the resources and everybody either had to be happy or silent. Beagle will happily index gigabytes of my data *while I'm working on battery*. And there is no way to stop it from doing that except mucking with cron or uninstalling beagle. Uninstalling beagle was faster. I don't care whether beagle drains my battery with "idle" i/o priority, for all I know it could have run at full priority and would have drained the battery to the same amount. Even the old, grotty findutils-locate checked if you ran on battery and aborted if so. And then there is the performance penalty for filesystem access while beagle is running. "Think of it this way: beagle is like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta :-)" (With apologies to Larry McVoy) As long as beagle doesn't spoil my computing experience, I like it. Regards, Carl-Daniel P.S. GNOME is not the only group suffering from NIH. They just have the bad luck of more annoying zealots. I'm no fan of KDE either, but at least they accept that there is life besides KDE. My desktop environment of choice is fvwm2. -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
