Re: IDEA: IceDE (lightweight LXDE competitor)

Duke Normandin <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:02:30 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <20120418220230.1d9a8096.dukeofperl_lavabit.com@select-man>
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:24:02 +0200 (CEST), Adam Pribyl
<[email protected]> wrote:



> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Jason Hsu wrote:
> 
> > How many (or few) people work on IceWM?  How small is the JWM
> > team?  How many people work on KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE?
> >
> 
> To address this, the IceWM code was usually one man show. It was
> found by Marko Macek, then Marko had a short break when it was
> maintained by Mathis Hasselmann, last Marko was active again.
> 
> However there were still during the years flowing some pathes
> from other people, mainly from debian.
> 
> ATM the code is somewhat stalled. The reason is, e.g. for me,
> that I have IceWM on the last computer, that I use rarely. While
> I am always impressed by its lightness, I am far from maintaining
> icons and application menus I did for years there. Therefore also
> web/documentation/icons/configs are starving.
> 
> Thats it.

Sooo ... Bottom line!!! Is IceWM dead as far as you are concerned?
Time to move on?

-- 
Duke
Alberta, Canada


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