From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] seemail/faces
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 06:06:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <012f01c17a25$dedeb340$a4b6c6d4@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111302014.UAA07523@localhost.localdomain>
> Why not, pray? Its use implies you've already got X11 and all the
> gunk that goes with it. Xfaces, behemoth though it might be, just
> sits in the corner and renders pixels. Big deal. Turn off all the
> rubbish about audio, animation, shaped images and about half a
> million image formats, and just display what's in your mailbox.
> It's not as if you need to *interact* with it.
These are exactly the reasons I do not want it.
It's the emacs school of thought.
I've suffered enough, putting up faces.
faces/seemail is a much smaller, cooler piece of code.
It also lets me test libXg, which could be productive
for people who want to run plan 9 stuff on X11.
This is user mode, not linux kernel, build it all
in and then compress it.
Simple is good. Simple works.
Turkish: Did you understand one word of what he just said?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-01 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-30 11:14 Boyd Roberts
2001-11-30 11:24 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-11-30 20:14 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-01 5:06 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
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