Re: [Firestarter-user] Config
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From: Yusuf K. T. <kte...@gm...> - 2015-05-31 13:51:50
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Hi everybody, Any suggestion of alternatives ? Thanks in advance and best regards... YKT > Le 31 May 2015 à 11:43, J.O. Aho <tr...@in...> a écrit : > > 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 application, and (I believe) many still use it, it is obsolete?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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Firestarter-user mailing list > To unsubscribe, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firestarter-user |