RE: Re: Ping Brian - xSetEvar question

> From: news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Wolven
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:43 PM
> To: litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]
> Subject: [Litestep] Re: Ping Brian - xSetEvar question
> 
> Paul wrote:
> > In this theme I am getting ready to test, I rely on your 
> module. Are 
> > you going to upload that anywhere? Or should I just continue to 
> > include it with my theme? I have had no problems in what, over 2 
> > months? I'd say it was safe for uploading.
> > 
> > I just wanted your permission before including in my theme for 
> > distribution.
> 
> Sorry, I was off on an extended weekend in the Monongahela 
> National Forest and the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area. Not only 
> did I not have any net access, I didn't even have a cell 
> phone signal for three days. Amazingly I was able to survive 
> nonetheless.

I figured as much. Actually I thought you might have been on some damn
naturn bike ride and a bear attacked you and tore you to pieces flinging
gore and meat all over the forest, leaving us surviors to wonder
"Whatever happened to Wolven?"

> As far as the module goes, I haven't had any problems with it 
> either, but then it's basically just a set of functions 
> stripped out of Andymon's xmodule code and his module 
> template. It'd probably be good to have some eyes that 
> actually know what they're doing take a peek at the code. I 
> have no objections to it being released, assuming that 
> someone smart doesn't come along and provide a better method 
> of achieving the same thing.

So is that a "Go ahead and upload it" or are you going to upload it? Or
are you going to have someone look at it first?

> My next task is to figure out how to make OS X as powerful 
> and user friendly as Litestep and the many free "helpers" 
> available on Windows. No [useful] right click menu, no window 
> snapping or shading, no mouse gestures (other than with 
> extensions to Firefox and Thunderbird) - they don't even have 
> global hotkeys and a decent VWM, for Jobs' sake. It *is* nice 
> to have bash (or the alternate command-line shell of your 
> choice) available right from the get-go. No cygwin 
> installation required. =)
> 

This is something that I just can't understand about popular commercial
OS'es. Why are simple personalizing options not built into the OS? On
one hand I can see MS saying that they are leaving it open to thrid
party developers so that they can make a buck from users. But consider
how many PC's are work computers where the average user is not allowed
to install helpful utilities. 

Why in the world snapping, rollup, & pinned windows along with basic
personalized hotkey's is a no brainer. They obviously know hotkeys are
great, Office is chock full of them. Now the right click desktop menu, I
can inderstand that not being the default, but come on... They have to
know it is damn handy.

Sorry for the rant, but it hit a nerve...


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