On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 at 15:01:02 +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > > I've seen the "it would be cool to have dockapps together somewhere" > without > > understanding what is wrong with dockapps.org. Broken links to original > > homepages? So what? > > i'd say the primary problem is that it is sort of an app cemetery, > with no way to improve and tweak them and stuff. i'm hazarding a guess > that many of you have several patches to apps long forgotten by their > original authors and the like, it is only natural to think it would be > great to have central place for these mods.
Indeed, most of the dockapps I use have little patches applied. > i'm not saying unconditionally import every dockapp on github, but if > you (not you personally, carlos, but the general you of the audience) > use and care about a dockapp, you could import it, fix it up there and > stuff. pros: apps really noone use fade out, apps people use get the > bitrot fixed (i highly doubt very system-specific things like acpi > monitors and wifi tweakers and whatnot still work 10y later, not even > mentioning !linux). cons, can't think of any :) Got it, thanks Tamas. I can do that once I finish writing a paper and have a bit more free time. I will create a repo on repo.or.cz containing the dockapps I care about which I see are not maintained anymore except on distros. And then we can do the same stuff we already do with wmaker-crm, with the patches and all that. What do people think? Suggestions and tarballs with lots of dockapps people care about will be gladly accepted. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
