> I just wanted to extend my thanks to all of the hardworking Sawfish > developers, and to also congratulate you on the amazingly good job > you've done. > > Due to a lack of time to update something as critical as a window > manager (VERY scary if it breaks!), I've been running Sawfish 1.3 for > what seems like forever. This evening I finally found some time and > took the plunge. I had a bit of trouble getting librep-0.17.2 to > compile (thanks for posting the cure, Timo), but everything went as > smooth as silk. I didn't even have to log out; I simply did a restart > from the menu and poof, it all worked. > > I don't know if you guys realize how rare it is for an upgrade from > such an old version to go so smoothly. My hat is off to you! (And I > promise I won't let myself get so outdated again.) > -- > Geoff Kuenning [email protected] http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ > > Software, like bridges, should be elegant and visually pleasing as > well as functional. Ugly constructs, designs, and languages should be > avoided like the plague.
+1 I was in the same situation, have been using 1.3 forever, but since I couldn't find a working tray application for that version I recently upgraded to the most recent librep, rep-gtk, sawfish combo and it all worked (despite my fears!). Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown
