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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie - wassup everyone?
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 23:13:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84315c5350862c9cde01bc62af914c57@9srv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h6t9jw7m0f72wm3ahr9itnni.1366508689121@email.android.com>

// What do you guys think?

Generally, I think you'll find the answer is "we quite like it".
The main reason it is the way it is (and, talking about just
the UI, it's more or less been this way since 1989) is that
folks who become familiar with the system generally find
it quite powerful. You talk about "sleek", and in the sense
of "minimal waste", rio very much is. What is isn't is shiny.
And I suspect you'll find relatively few people on this list
who'd rather rio look more like OS X.

There's plenty of room for experimenting in wms (I've
been an advocate for some variation of the "alternative
wm" project in GSoC for years now), but I suspect you'll
get very little traction focusing on issues of insufficent
glitz.

Anthony




  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-21  3:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-21  1:44 Keith
2013-04-21  3:13 ` a [this message]
2013-04-21  3:50   ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-04-21  7:06     ` lucio
2013-04-21 12:21 Erik Quanstrom

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