On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:48:57PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
: Ok. But it does :) It fixes a large number of bugs, an iconbox, adds
: documentation, improves speed, and reduces memory usage. Is that wrong
: somehow?
An iconbox? Oh yeah, that thing that sits there chewing up memory.
: > The whole finger-pointing thing when he left RHAT, and now GNOME is
: > phasing out using Imlib in favor of GdkPixbuf, in order to overcome
: > shortcomings of Imlib that Raster doesn't seem willing to fix.
:
: Not fixing? Are you aware of the nearly complete imlib2? Clearly not.
If imlib2 is the holy grail, why is GNOME dumping imlib in favor of
GdkPixmap?
: I don't care what you want personally. The important thing is that
: it's in the distro for you to *choose*.
If you're so bent about this, which you certainly appear to be, then feel
free to do what Mandrake did. That is, take the RedHat installation CD
and change a few things here & there, add/subtract a few packages
and call it Tomix.
: I don't use apache, maybe RHAT should drop it? Of course not. That wood
: be bloody stupid =)
One's a piece of software that runs half of the websites on the net. The
other piece of software is something that draws borders on windows. How
about apples and apples?
: Ok. Well one of my co-workers summed it up best when he said
: "A window manager should do what *I* *WANT*. It should be what *I* *WANT*,
: and it should look, act and feel like *I* *WANT*. No other window
: manager gives me that power."
Sawmill does. Much smaller memory footprint too. IceWM has a tiny
footprint and is just as configurable as E.
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