XFce's way

[edscott wilson garcia]

El jue, 17-07-2003 a las 05:48, Moritz Heiber escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> encouraged by prophet at the IRC channel I'ld like to have some opinion
> about the following:
> 
> I've been wondering lately, do we really keep focus on the basic
> outlines of this project? To be leightweight and fast while providing
> the best and most usable desktop environment in the world?

If we limit xfce to be fast on a 486 at 66MHz, it is doomed to
obsolescence. So "fast" and "small" is on the scale of Olivier's
hardware. (I think it's about 1.2 GHz, but I'm not sure)

regards

Edscott

> 
> .. as for me, I saw all the latest requests like"Themable clock"
> (OMG! How useless IMHO!) or MacOS features like raizing icons for the
> panel (You're not ment to play with the panel but start applications
> from it just to leave it in the backround afterwards).
> 
> Don't you think we will be reaching gnome by some time? At least
> we've got almost half of the amount of packages as gnome has already.
> My worst fears are not to be mentioned .. lets all hope they won't turn
> into reality.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Moritz
> 
> PS:
> 
> <botsie> Olivier is pretty sane about these things
> ... he keep the bloat out.
> 
> <Moe> botsie: Yeah .. thats actually why I'm able to sleep on and on
> every night, because of knowing that Olivier is our fearless "Dictator"
> ;o)
> 
> ;-)
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