On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Daniel Isenmann wrote: > I think I will bring another feature to discussion. I use > Launch.app (http://stepmaker.sourceforge.net/launch.html) since
> with the latest windowmaker sources and runs. The starting time of > the application is equal to zero, so there is performance issue to > the standard "Run"-Dialog. i presume you meant "there is *no* performance issue"? still, even with not having tried it, using it as a separate application, i have strong feelings against this. you see, some time ago, when it seemed wmaker was going anywhere :), i started playing with other so-called lightweight wms to see if i could make them suit my needs. xfce was one candidate, where the root menu is some separate application that gets started when you hit a key combo to pop the root menu up. at times this was instantaneous, but more often than not it took a noticeable time for it to pop up. granted, that thing links against a metric ton of libraries, and it did took time for ld to link all these in, but even with all the prelink tricks and whatnot, as soon as i started to actually use my box for doing things, the xfce root menu instantly became unusable. ever since that experience i feel a great deal of aversion against such basic and essential things being provided as external executables. again, i did not try this launch.app (i didn't even know it existed five minutes ago). there's a great chance that simply by not depending on gtk (and, indirectly, the whole slew of gtk-supporting libraries) would make launch.app not exhibit this behaviour. and i still am standing by my opinion that basic functionality should be built in. -- [-] mkdir /nonexistent -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
