From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 19 21:18:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17198 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA17193 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:18:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id VAA07450 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:18:16 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id VAA22767 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:15:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK I am not really "hacking" per se. Following Mr. Hubbard's comments on his recent editorial, I am reusing code. This contest has provided an impetus for me to finally nail down the fine details of my X desktop. I have tried many of the ports looking for that right combination of utility and sexy. I am getting pretty close now. I just have to tell everyone who doesn't already know. TKDESK ROCKS. TKGOOSDSTUFF ROCKS TOO. (Yes caps, I really like 'em.) The two apps should be on everyones desktop. (Too bad motif is proprietary. I have pretty much neglected motif apps for this philosophical reason.) The coolness of these tk products kinda makes me wonder why the KDE crowd is doing things the way they do. KDE seems to me to be a huge effort to redo things that have already been done. TkDesk really kicks KFM in the behind IMHO. Also, Tcl/Tk doesn't have the encumberances that Qt has. I have a few more weeks until the DDD. (snicker, I love acronyms) A simple combination of Fvwm2, TkDesk, TkGoodStuff and some configuration is looking reaaaallly nice. See you in August. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message