On Wed, Apr17,02 12:30, Joe MacDonald wrote: > In message: Re: LainOS (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > on 17/04/2002 (Wed 11:27) Derek Cunningham wrote: > > > > didn't play nicely with X (it had no way to interact with other > > > applications like rox or xv who did things with the root window) > > > > Hmm... I should hope that's been fixed... it is proporting itself to > > be a desktop environment. > > Ah, there's the rub. It created it's own window that sat on top of X's > root window. That window was where the Perlbox desktop lived. > Basically a perl/tk version of Star Office 5.2. >
ewww... that just tastes funny thinking about it! I'll still have a look... but if this is still true, it'll be scrapped pretty quickly. > > > and it was TK based. (Like the TK wigets aren't > > > ugly enough to make one swear off any UI on their own.) > > > > well.. the screenshots look good. :) > > Yeah, that's what I thought too. Somehow, though, when I got it set up > all the TK-ness oozed out at me. :-) > heh. > > > Of course, don't take my word for it, both projects may have > > > improved vastly since then, and maybe my Athelon 1.33GHz with 1Gig > > > of RAM was just too puny for perlbox to run properly. I know it's > > > inadquate for Enlightenment. ;-) > > > > > > > hmm... I'm running PII300/512Ram and E ran fairly decently on my > > system... *shrug* maybe we have different expectations? :) > > Undoubtedly. :-) I expect everything to run as snappy as bb, which is > why I'm not running something else right now. Nothing measures up > except for some of those 9wm-style managers (and possibly twm) and I > can't bring myself to use them. > whenever I reinstall a Linux distro (in my case: slackware) I ONLY install TWM... and then proceed to use it long enough to get blackbox online. :) I doubt I'll change... but using blackbox is like my search for religion... I currently don't believe in God, but I keep looking for him, whereas with Blackbox I currently don't believe anything is better, but I keep looking for something better anyway. :) heh... Maybe I should suck it up, and find something useful to do with my time, instead of the never-ending persuit of God, and the fruitless-since-blackbox-was-developed persuit of the Perfect WM. DC -- Derek Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives" -- Abba Eban Registered Linux User Number 195825
