A short outside history of Xfce

[Joe Klemmer]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:41 +0200, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> >>You can download it as a tar.bz2 here:
> >>http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.3.90.1/src/gtk-xfce-engine-2.3.90.1.tar.bz2
> >>As said, it has to be installed to the same prefix as GTK2.
> > 
> > 	Thanks.  Now to figure out where the heck gtk2 is.
> 
> echo "Joe, gtk2 is here:"
> echo "-> `pkg-config --variable=prefix gtk+-2.0` <-"

	Alright, smart @$$.  I'd have figured that out eventually.  Ok, maybe a
bit longer than eventually.  Oh #311, I'd have forgotten to even try and
look so it's a good thing you sent this.

OT:
	Back in late '99 I started working for what would turn out to be a 5
year gig.  The job was high-end Solaris SysAdmin work [Side note: I
infected the place with Linux and now there's as much Red Hat and Fedora
there as Solaris] with some networking.  The guys I was working with
were all high-end techies.  One was actually a Solaris instructor for
Sun before he came there.

	Anyway, one day we were working on something and he was trying to ask
me a question.  He couldn't get it out so I told him, half jokingly,
"Tell me in shell."  Well, he did and damned if I didn't know what he
needed right away.

	There was another guy there who was the quintessential engineer.  It
was always funny asking him a question.  You'd get two examples and a
car analogy.  The funniest thing one time was when this non-techie asked
him a yes or no question.  I over hear the question so I rolled my chair
over because I knew I'd get a wealth of info in the answer.  After about
10 minutes my man was done.  I then proceeded to say, "Ok, now answer
yes or no."  He said yes.

	$DEITY how I love hanging with techies.  :-)