From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 3 14:26:02 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05449 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:26:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05391 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12983; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:39:41 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:39:41 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Allen Campbell Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Message-ID: <19990203213941.A25354@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <36B7D831.65EDA0F3@verinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36B7D831.65EDA0F3@verinet.com>; from Allen Campbell on Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 10:01:37PM -0700 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Bagel: The carbohydrate with the hole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message