Re: worthless window manager

[nlp3 cornell edu]

sometimes I get very confused when I see people refering to things as 
worthless or useless, just because they don't need them ( or can't figure 
out what to do with them).  But is a tank useless just because you live 
in New York City and can't park it on the street? I guess even the best 
piece of software, or for that matter even hardware would be useless if 
you live in a small cave on a lonely island with no access to electricity...

I am confused by advocacy groups - are they dumb? Or do they think other 
people are? "Our way/product/etc. is the best!" Yeah, it's just that I 
don't drive a car and have no need for a bow and arrows, I don't go 
hunting, don't shoot at people and have no need for your semi-automatic 
all-weather gun. I smoke cigarettes and don't care what you think and if 
I die tomorrow. I drink only one kind of vodka 'cause it's the one that 
never gives me hangovers for breakfast and I don't care which one is "the 
best!" 'cause even the best things on earth are not worth a dime if you 
don't need them or can't use them (or drink them :). 

Nikolay

(just had no personal mail today and felt like writing :)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kevin Colby wrote:

> Vic wrote:
> > 
> > What kind of window manager is fvwm
> > when it does not have any icons?
> 
> A very good one.
> In fact, the one from which nearly all others are derived.
> (Although it too, is a derivative work.)
> 
> > It does not do anything its worthless.
> 
> Hey, now...
> 
> > I installed AOL inst mess and Licq and it does nothing,
> > no icons to click on nor does it show up in the pulldown
> > menus to show I even installed the stupid thing.
> 
> Well, FVWM is not going to hold your hand.
> It doesn't play like that.  It doesn't know
> what you installed, or what icons you like.
> If you really want to use it, you'll need to set it up.
> 
> > So I dumped it and went back to KDE.
> 
> If you expect those kinds of things in your WM,
> FVWM is probably not for you.  That said, FVWM
> will run circles around KDE.  It all depends on
> what you expect from it.  There are trade-offs.
> 
> 	- Kevin Colby
> 	  kevinc grainsystems com
> 
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