[There are many snips in the following] Jan Schaumann wrote: > Laszlo Gerencser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I would like to see at least a minimal > > development effort to make bb better. (Sorry, I do not have any C++ > > knowledge. Maybe I'll learn this language in the future.) > > Well, maybe you should. Open Source always offers you the possibility > of scratching your itch. That's the greatest thing about it - on the > other hand, nobody can come along and say "I can't do it, but I demand > others do it"[1]. Yeah, I'll spend a little spare time on learning C++ if I'll have any time. You know I work far more than 8 hours/day and 5 day/week actually. Maybe the New Year brings me the opportunity... > > I can't belive that anybody will claim here that the deveolpment of bb > > is not wanted anymore. We can live with the current (great) release, > > but I'm sure, everybody would be happy to be able to install a new > > version. > Only if the new version offers features I'm missing or fixes bugs I'm > encountering. Why else would I install a new version? Just b/c it's > new? No. Because it's better. :-) Well, I didn't mention that everyone must install the (theorethical) new version. I just meant that everybody would be happy to be ABLE to install it. (This means: everybody would be happy to see a continuous development with new releases.) Maybe my broken English makes me misunderstandable. Or you banter me? ;-)
> I do not mean that BB is perfect and should not be touched again, ever. > What I _do_ mean, is that it's tricky to determine the actual bugs and > separate them from what people *consider* bugs, b/c they are not used to > the way BB works, or b/c they have certain expectations towards a > windowmanager, that would be better suited for a Desktop Environment. I agree all of these words. -- Laszlo Gerencser PortoLogic Ltd.
