From: Christoph W. <chr...@go...> - 2009-02-24 18:35:33
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Am Sonntag, den 22.02.2009, 08:00 +0100 schrieb Hotnuma: > LXDE looks dead in fact. Last release of a component was January 26th 2009. You call this dead? > It clams to be better than xfce Who said that? What does "better than" mean? > but it's less > fonctionnal and more buggy than Windows 95, which is 17 years old. > (Win95 had a trash can, drag and drop support and much more) You are comparing apples and oranges here. How many people worked on Windows 95 and how many on LXDE? How much did you pay for Windows 95? > LxPanel is a fork of another project and you can find in the source code > parts taken from xfce or other projects. LXPanel is based on fbpanel, but it has much more functionality now. LXTask is based on xfce4-taskmanager, but has a lot of fixes that didn't get applied in Xfce because the taskmanager is unmaintained. So what's wrong with using other projects as a starting point? I'm pretty sure if we reinvented the wheel you would also criticize that. > It looks like a very good > vaporware, a lot of promotion and not much facts. What facts are you missing? > Forks, forks, forks, 36 members and finally no more C developper, nobody > is able to commit patches except translations. I'm not a C developer, but I'm very well able to commit patches. > Yet another open source utopia... > > Manu. Regards, Christoph |