Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:06:20 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest Message-ID: <19980720170620.24929@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <35B2CC1B.5D2ECFBE@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:48:27PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980719204331.12286A-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <35B2CC1B.5D2ECFBE@softweyr.com>
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On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 10:48:27PM -0600, Wes Peters woke me up to tell me: > Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > > 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'm glad someone is doing it. I was thinking about packaging up my desktop > and sending it in, just to kick start the contest. It's not too fancy, > but it works. I basically consists of Enlightenment, Emacs, and Netscape, > with the "SwingMetal" theme slightly customized to my needs. > > We need more submissions, folks. Grab your CD, put E! or TkDesk or Fvwm > or whatever on your desktop, hack around a bit, and submit it. I'd really > like for someone to submit a complete, working KDE environment just to > compare against. Gee.... I use twm (I want an Icon Manager for my Icon Managers!), I have a disgustingly simple sh script to rotate pictures in my background, I have about 13 xbiffs, an xpostit, and an icon manager running off the bottom of the screen despite have another one on the other side of the screen. I don't think it qualifies as a 'scheme', more like a 'DIP' (disaster in progress) Which reminds me, has anyone seen a problem with xpostit's menu stopping working sometimes randomly? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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