Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 14:50:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Phillip Salzman <psalzman@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811091441240.7784-100000@gamefish.pcola.gulf.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981109011433.18381A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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> > Not quite fair--to conclude there's no interest--because the contest > was suspended at least 10 days before the deadline, so people who > might have participated didn't. > > Annelise Close, except we suspended the contest the first time the day after the deadline. At this point we recieved three entries, one of which was invalid. It was decided to restart the contest along with the release of 3.0-RELEASE. This would serve as a special kick-off party for it if you say... the day of the release, it was cancelled. It could be said we should of let it last longer, to see if we got a final product that was worthy. I admit that. In the ashes of the contest, we still need a better default configuration for X. We are still limited with twm. I propose we start a ``BSD X Development Enviornment'' which will include cheezy frontends to your favorite networking tools, etc. The suggestion you told me of using TK may actually be one of our biggest choices, but I feel obligated to keep it away from that because of the many differences between versions. This could break anything we create after a newer version is released. Would any of you be interested in starting something like this? We would need a couple of developers with some experience in programming for X11. I would like to keep it C, but TK will probally be fine.. -- Phillip Salzman "Some die old, others never grow up..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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