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> Mike Frysinger - he's a busy man :-) He heads up the gentoo toolchain team, is |
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> a lead kernel dev on the blackfin architecture, recently was (maybe still is) |
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> on the gentoo council. And maintains an e17 overlay. |
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Oh boy. I would donate money to him if I wasn't a poor student and if |
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the dollar wasn't so overvalued related to my national currency ($1 |
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was R$1,58 some months ago, but is now R$2,10). By the way, people |
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like him should keep an easy way of receiving anonymous donations. I |
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plan on donating a little money to free software in the future. I |
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think I will donate to national projects, because they are probably |
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more starved than projects in the US, the land where hammers are made |
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of gold. |
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>> Also, why are the snapshot ebuilds so horribly outdated? |
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> The snapshot ebuilds are not out of date - the e17 snapshots are :-) |
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It seems (see http://download.enlightenment.org/snapshots/LATEST/) |
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that the latest e17 snapshots are from 2008-09-24. However, last time |
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I checked the e17 overlay (and I can't easily check it now because I |
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am at work), the snapshot ebuilds were a year old or something. |
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> If you use e17 svn code, be prepared to act like a dev. That's what the e17 |
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> team expects, that's how they build the thing currently and that's the price |
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> we have to pay to get to use that wm. |
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Well, I guess I will stick with Xfce for a while then. After all, it |
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takes something like two more seconds to load (I measured it some time |
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ago, but forgot the results) than e17 on my Athlon XP 2600+, and |
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that's bearable. Also, while I miss e17 power*, the loss of it is also |
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bearable |
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> I myself got tired of eternally fiddling with e and have resorted to using kde |
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> until things settle down... |
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KDE?! To go from e17 to KDE is a bit extreme; like "this micro-compact |
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does not fulfill my transportation needs, so I will buy an SUV". Why |
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don't you use Xfce? It is small, fast, lightweight, quite configurable |
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(both by GUI and by text files**), compiles very quickly and has |
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everything I want a DE to have. Have you not thought about it? |
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And going off-topic: I mentioned that Gentoo's GCC and Xorg are too |
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old. Do you know if there is any prediction (yes, I know predictions |
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can fail; I am waiting for Debian Lenny since September) for their |
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upgrade? Is there anywhere I can get information like this? |
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* A quick example of e17 power is making my TV-viewing program |
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borderless. Programs that are always on top should be borderless to |
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save screen space. Imagine if, for example, the KDE panel had a |
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border. |
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** That "programs with a GUI should also have a command-line |
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interface, and configuration should be accessable via both a GUI tool |
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and text files" should be on Software Engineering 101. |
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Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds |
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