HOWTO? xfce3 -> xfce4

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:29, Biju Chacko wrote:
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> > 
> > I can't find anything about this in freedesktop.org.
> > Is the maximize function standardized?
> > Is the binding to MB1 standardized?
> > Will this prevent building XFCE on other platforms?
> 
> I didn't say that these things were bot possible because they were non-standard.
> I just said it couldn't be done. Heck, there were only 5 of us coding, and that
> too in our spare time. Do you really expect us to implement every feature that
> was developed in over five years of XFce3 development in the past year and a
> half?
> 
> Look, if a feature isn't there, well *maybe* we didn't have the time to do it.
> Maybe we were too busy making sure what we wrote was stable. Maybe we were
> trying to keep the code bloat-free.

Or playing frisbee with the dog ;-)

> 
> > I can stick with the xfce3 for a while.
> > But what can i expect in the future? Someone will standardize MY screen?
> > Will this in the end look like Tokyo by night or Disneyland (gnome & 
> > windoze)?

If you do not code, then *yes*. Your screen will eventually  be
standarized to oblivion. If you do code, you should start contributing
code; free software is not gratis.