Where are the goals of XFCE.

[Vincent]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:26 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.  :)


Of course that's not what I meant. What I meant was that every computer
needs to be discarded someday. Xfce can extend its life, but not forever.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Richard Querin <rfquerin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm not going to argue what is reasonable, but if you think an 8 year old
computer is reasonable now, do you think it still is reasonable to support
it in five years? Or in other words: if you thought a then eight-year-old
computer was a reasonable target five years ago, do you think a
thirteen-year-old computer is a reasonable target today?

-- 
Vincent
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