Carlos, I was a window maker user back in the 20th century.
I agree with you that the priority should be stability but I would love to see improvements and new features in the years to come. I do not think that adding new features necessarily bloats software. Today's software is slow due to poor design and, mainly, bad programmers who are used to many unnecessary layers of libraries and virtual machines. Good programmers can write large and efficient programs. Em 14/11/2013 20:21, "Paul Seelig" <psee...@rumbero.org> escreveu: > On 11/14/2013 08:00 PM, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > > People argue that "new users" will like to change widget colors in the > _future_. > > I argue that old users don't care _now_. > > > Well, i am one of those old users, if not even one of the very old users > of wmaker. I use it since at least since the year 2000, if not even > earlier. There is even a changelog entry of the official Debian package > of wmaker 0.91.0-5 from Fri, 07 Jan 2005 citing my name, while > mentioning that i pointed to a patch by our estimated currrent list > member Iain Patterson. Is this old enough? Time certainly flies. :) > > Being such an old user, i really wouldn't have minded already in the > long gone _past_ if wmaker would finally be able to change widget colors > in order to be more flexible while trying to create a more homogeneous > desktop without having to subdue oneself to WINGs' color limitations. > But i am repeating myself. :) > > At the very same time i defintely would very welcome those functional > enhancements you mentioned in an earlier message within this thread, > namely "a patch to implement resizing by dragging the corners or a patch > to be able to navigate items in a list using the keyboard keys". And i > would add things like copy and paste via keyboard shortcuts, which > already wrote about in this list a few weeks/months ago. > > It would be great to have some kind of official TODO or roadmap > containing these enhancement ideas officially published somewhere, in > order to provide some guidance for interested developers. > > Yes, "changing the colors does not hurt either" is one way to put it, > but i would rather express it as "enabling WINGs to be more flexible and > adaptive" for those users who are trying to design a minimally > homogeneous desktop in an absolutely heterogeneous world of Linux > desktops and applications. We are in the 21st century now, not in 1995 > anymore. > > In fact, as much as i would dislike a overturning revolution in wmaker, > i definitely would not mind some more evolution in both functionality > and design capabilities. > > I hope i still count as one of those "old users"? ;) > > Regards, > Paul > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org. >
