On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:06:56 -0500 "Larson, Timothy E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I generally have no problem with the packages from the NetBSD project. > However the person in charge of maintaining the blackbox package isn't > updating it from 0.65 because interoperability of 0.70.x with bbtools > isn't there yet, and the features/fixes aren't compelling enough to > break that compatibility.
I would've personally though that the EWMH support in 0.70.x more than makes up for the loss of bbtools, by allowing users to combine Blackbox with a very wide variety of pieces from various desktop environments, not to mention standalone software that also supports EWMH. Since 0.70.x I've been able to experiment with half a dozen different panels and dozens of applets for Gnome, KDE and third party utilities. I'd be hard-pressed to think of a bbtool that doesn't have a counterpart as an applet or dockapp of some kind. Besides, perhaps the issue is stated backwards. Forgive me if I'm wrong, as I'm not familiar with bbtools' code, but shouldn't the tools be made compatible with 0.70.x, not the other way around? Why exactly aren't the bbtools working with 0.70 anymore? -- Ciprian Popovici
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