[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC with FFMpeg waht a combination!

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje
Fri Mar 21 18:18:47 CET 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:56:35PM -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > gnome and kde are also bloated (and dying as there are better window
> > > managers around) monsters<
> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel>
> >
> >
> > Sorry, what planet is this? I mean, GNOME & KDE are both horrible in so
> many
> > ways (I stopped devving / using it), but there's nothing better.
>
> There are like 500 window managers around. All of them better than
> kde&gnome.
> just do
> apt-cache search 'window manager' (or equivalent for your distro)
> and try them until you find one you like ...


They're unused and/or fragmented and thus uninteresting to ISVs or
application developers.

For it to matter in this particular question ("let's develop a UI for
xyzzy"), it needs to be mainstream. None of them are.

Ronald




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