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

[Måns Rullgård]

"Ronald S. Bultje" <rsbultje at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

What is an ISV?

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

A sane application will run under *any* window manager.

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