Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 14:22:58 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A contest about to start... Message-ID: <199806131722.OAA18025@roma.coe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <199806111853.LAA03541@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 11, 98 11:53:18 am"
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#define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) // To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Is this really a multimedia subject ? :) // At http://www.freebsd.org/~xcontest you will find the "alpha version" // of a page for a contest which I'll soon be launching, the goal of which // being to get some better canned desktop profiles to ship with future // versions of FreeBSD. Cool !!! Could I suggest something to make our standard desktop somewhat better than the others ? I think that a higher attetion could be given to self configurable desktops. A desktop menu with millions of utilities you will never use is mostly annoying than useful. A good standard desktop would know which utilities are installed before putting then in menus. AFAIK, fvwm* can do this with preprocessor configurable files, though I've never bothered messing with them. Also, judges must be careful not to chose something too much heavy for medium sized workstations. It's good to have a PII/300 during the judgment, since you may need to install and resintall packages lots of times, but the average user may not have even a P/200 with 32M RAM. It's good to have a super-deuper WM around, but if my CPU would be affected, I would stay with twm. That's why I still use netscape3. :) Finally, the big winner could also not be just one person, but a group. The HDTV contest showed this to us. The final approved standard was not one suggested by any of the contestants, but a mix from almost every competitor. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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