Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:39:41 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Message-ID: <19990203213941.A25354@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <36B7D831.65EDA0F3@verinet.com>; from Allen Campbell on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:01:37PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902021714270.23266-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <36B7D831.65EDA0F3@verinet.com>
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On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:01:37PM -0700, Allen Campbell wrote:
> It wasn't the work required to conduct a contest that resulted in a poor
> turnout of entrants; this work had already been done or was at least
> well on the way. The contest failed for lack of submissions.
Just as a datapoint -- I looked at the contest when it started, because
I quite like my X desktop, and so do several people who've taken it from
me and adapted it for themselves.
I didn't submit it for the contest because it uses several programs
(in the ports tree) that are quite important to it. For example, procmail
splits mail in to different folders, xbuffer displays the mail in those
folders, mutt runs on the mail in the folders as necessary -- at least
one of those programs wasn't in the approved list, and I have other
examples as well.
The effort to try and pull those features out and still have a (to me)
useful desktop outweighed the amount of time I could dedicate to putting
it together.
N
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