Re: [Tile-dev] Random treeview suggestion

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:41:13AM +0800, Steve Landers wrote:
> 
> On 21/09/2005, at 8:25 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
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> >On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:20:27PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> >>For those of you on windows, try downloading process explorer from
> >>www.sysinternals.com (it's like top and ps -axf rolled into one;
> >>and filemon from the same place is a lot like a graphical lsof).
> >>
> >>If someone could take the treeview widget and dummy up something that
> >>worked liked this on Unix I think that would be an excellent test of
> >>emulating a working, useful, polished Windows app.  Assuming that's
> >>of any interest.
> >>
> >
> >Oy, that last sentence probably came off in classic Larry McVoy snotty
> >style.  Sorry about that, that wasn't the intent.  What I was trying
> >to say is that it's a good app to emulate, if tcl/tk could do that  
> >look
> >and feel and functionality easily that would be a good thing for  
> >tcl/tk.
> 
> And here's me thinking of replying "Sarcasm becomes you" :)
> 
> Cheers Larry - that's a good reference point.

I really do apologize, I'm well known for having the world's worst user
interface in email.  Linus once told someone "If you need to talk to 
Larry then call him on the phone - you'll find, much to your surprise,
he's actually a very reasonable person when you talk to him live".

Or something like that, I cc-ed Linus so he can deny he ever said anything
like that.

I will admit that I've pissed off virtually everyone in email.  I don't
mean to, it just happens.  Someone needs to come take the keyboard away
from me.  Sigh.

OK, Mea Culpas aside, I have been living on Windows for the last couple of
months and have learned a lot about how things are supposed to work there.
And I'd really like to see tcl/tk so native that nobody could tell the 
difference.  And we have (some) money.  So if people are looking for work
and think they can help and the tile folks want that help then maybe we 
can help make that happen.  If Joe and Jeff say "please give XYZ some 
bucks, good things will happen" then we're pretty likely to do so.

We reserve the right to define "good things".  It doesn't include a 
trip to Tahiti :)  
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