[qvwm-e:00357] Re: qvwm development
Ben Ford <[email protected]> Sat, 08 May 2004 00:54:31 -0700
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060804070906080307050203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Sorenson wrote: > Trying to develop something against the installed base of Gnome/KDE is > too intimidating. I mean, that's millions of lines of tested code > installed on tens of thousands of desktops. That's a tough nut to > crack, ya know? ;) Maybe so . . . but have you ever tried to run either of those on a lightweight machine? No way. QVWM is a lean, mean wm and it runs great. All it needs is a little work to bring it up to modern standards . . . update the tray to use the freedesktop.org spec, work in the notification libraries, etc. Maybe a few external apps for configuration. Not a lot at all. -b --------------060804070906080307050203 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf8; name="ben.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="ben.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Ben Ford n:Ford;Ben email;internet:[email protected] tel;work:509-335-5667 tel;home:509-333-8023 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------060804070906080307050203--