Re: [Firestarter-user] Config

[J.O. A. <tr...@in...>]

On 30/05/15 13:56, Genghis Khan wrote:


>> You do realise, I assume, that development and maintenance of
>> firestarter, ended some years ago, and, whilst it was a good
>> application, and (I believe) many still use it, it is obsolete?
>>
> Aside you, me and others are subscribed to this mailing list, despite
> the maintenance of Firestarter has ended, why do you ask this question?


If you don't know how to tweak and fix things, firestarter will not be 
as effective as you may think it is.


> I think, since system tray deprecation is imminent, there are more
> chances for someone to step up and readapt and optimize the code of
> Firestarter to the new desktop environments.

I doubt that, I know how many efforts has been made to fork this project 
and all have failed, I think we will get more questions about why they 
can't see the tray icon anymore.


> Pointing out that the maintenance of Firestarter has ended, while not
> even discussing or suggesting on a way to continue its development,
> would not do any good, by my opinion.

No, but it may get someone to look for an alternative. It's time to move 
ahead for people, sure some old legacy system may be running firestarter 
but a uptodate or fresh install should not.


-- 
      //Aho