Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:06:14 -0500 From: Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI Suggested? Message-ID: <AANLkTikjXoc7aq7zft0Te3sXHnW8mT457WEdDYQeFTif@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100924024856.GB19697@guilt.hydra> References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> <20100923152023.GA14903@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <AANLkTikECugKYAg%2Bt%2BQv%2BSGBgdfSg4kR1eAQO1Yffq8U@mail.gmail.com> <20100924003120.GA19235@guilt.hydra> <4C9BF868.9000805@gmail.com> <AANLkTi=sgw59A5ju8vvVooX=18rBAsGEyjr3invJZJ66@mail.gmail.com> <20100924024856.GB19697@guilt.hydra>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> w= rote: >> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >>> >> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >> >>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and >> >>> vim-like (among other things ;-). >> >> >> >> Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotwm >> >> developer(s)? =A0Earlier today, I read this on the site: >> >> >> >> =A0 =A0 "On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings an= d >> >> =A0 =A0 xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C." >> >> >> >> hahahahahahaha! >> >> >> What's up with that? =A0How does Haskell "cripple" xmonad? >> >> >> >> In the end, you need not take yourself so seriously. =A0The thread was >> generic enough to allow for some rhetorical flourish. I suggested >> something . . . pointed out that is written in C (as did the homepage) >> . . . =A0AND you concluded some sort of insult; not my problem. >> >> Do you need a rim-shot for every joke? > > 1. Who said I took insult? =A0You assume too much. > > 2. That was not a very clever joke, anyway. =A0Where's the punchline? > > 3. That doesn't answer my question about the Scrotwm page. > > Even *I* am not so socially stunted as to think a comment like that on > the Scrotwm site would not raise some eyebrows. > Some? sure. In the end, scrotwm is a simple wm that allows the "gui-apprehensive-type" folk a nice CLI in X. That's all I was suggesting. "Shave and a haircut" . . . Chad?
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