Re: GUI API reference for gnuStep

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> Hi,
>>
>> Dead or not, I've been using WindowMaker as my window manager since the
>> mid-1990s, on Solaris, Linux, and AIX, every day, and very often over VPN.
>>  I've never had it crash; never had to fuss with it.  Being old doesn't
>> disqualify it from being good at what it does.  It was usable over dial-up
>> when nothing else was.
>
> Exactly, since it performs its duties well...
> We complete WindowMaker for its experience as a Workspace. Which sense does
> it make to run GWorkspace inside GNOME? WindowMaker does not compete with
> GNOME, luckily!

We (as WMaker devs) kinda did try to compete with GNOME and failed and
realized we shouldn't.

>>
>> I can't say anything good about GNOME.  It was installed as part of the
>> 'Sun Java Desktop System' when I upgraded my U60 here at home to Solaris 10,
>> and made that machine practically useless for local desktop use, it was so
>> insanely slow.  Removing GNOME from it was like excising a cancer.
>>
> Yes, I perfectly understand. When GNUstep still run on Solaris 2.6, I took
> the time to integrate GNUstep+Windowmaker as a full parified option into
> dtlogin, so you could choose it along "CDE" and "OpenLook".
>
> Riccardo
>
> GNUstep maintainer and application developer

You are an ideal maintainer!

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8... oh fuck don't tell me to count to 10 I can do that since 7!

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