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- Subject: Re: tlug: X resolution / color depth
- From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:46:14 +0900 (JST)
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>>>>> "ScottS" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes: ScottS> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Scott H. Perlman wrote: >> This is obvoiusly not a function of X. The problem with this >> concept is that there are far far too many available options. >> Any program that decides to modify my .ctwmrc without asking >> won't make it for long. The necessary intelligence to parse >> all the various window management files and itelligently add >> itself is nigh unto impossible. You simply cannot completely >> automate this in a customizeable Unix environment. ScottS> I've got it pretty darn close with the turbodesk utilities ScottS> (only for AfterStep 1.0, though). Try it :) Are you missing Scott P.'s point? Scott P. is worrying about the poor luser who doesn't give a f**k what you can do with AfterStop[sic] 1.0, but just says "Don't you step on my blue suede shoes." How do his ctwm shoes look after turbodesk is done with them? What you can do with one manager is irrelevant to those who don't use it. I think Scott P.'s "impossible" is far too strong a word, for example if TurboDesk should create a public API for manu management and sample implementations for a couple of the WMs with large market share. I would have said the same thing about Windoze "Install Wizards," but everybody seems to have them. If TD creates such an API, I'll give you credit for the 2-point conversion. (Debian is working on this, by the way, although I don't know how general it is in practice.) But that's not the way you seem to be approaching things. --------------------------------------------------------------- Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30 Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code --------------------------------------------------------------- a word from the sponsor: TWICS - Japan's First Public-Access Internet System www.twics.com info@example.com Tel:03-3351-5977 Fax:03-3353-6096
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