Where are the goals of XFCE.

[Richard Querin]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2008-07-14, Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl> wrote:
>
> > Of course talking light-weightness is not stupid. However, it
> > is madness to assume that, because Xfce ran on old computers
> > five years ago, Xfce should still run on those same computers
> > today even though they've become five years older. "Old
> > computers" of today can handle more than "old computers" of
> > yesterday.
>
> Cool.  Where do you get one of those computers who's capacity
> increases with time?  My "old computers" of a few years ago are
> the same machines as my "old computers" of today.  :)
>

I think something like a 5 year old or 8 year old moving window is
completely reasonable. Xfce works great with my P4-3Ghz which is now
probably 5 years old. Gnome works, but not nearly as well. But I don't
expect XFCE to work well with my Pentium75 from years gone by. Things have
to change. But you can still make sure you cater to old machines and define
what that means based on the current state of the art.
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