Re: gnome-pager in gnome-applets CVS...

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

Hi I like your tasklist applet -- only it is too unstable in 1.0.53 and 1.1.0
when i ran it. checkout my message to Hvaoc.

Maher

On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> Mike Bond wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry to bring up an "old" subject, but...
> > 
> > I just noticed that gnome-pager has been taken out of the default build
> > and distribution in CVS as of October 22. Only noticed it now as I did a
> > completely clean install of everything. Why has this been done? I recall
> > a couple discussions comparing gnome-pager and deskguide/tasklist but
> > didn't realize that gnome-pager was no longer going to be
> > built/distributed automatically with gnome-applets. Personally I don't
> > mind deskguide but I really dislike tasklist, and I also dislike taking
> > twice the memory for the same functionality, the deskguide/tasklist
> > applets each consume roughly the same memory as the gnome-pager,
> > contrary to certain beliefs that they should each be smaller on their
> > own. Bottom line is that it would be nice if gnome-pager got added back
> > to the default build/distro of gnome-applets, even if it is not the
> > default.
> > 
> > --
> > TTFN
> > MikeB
> > 
> 
> OK, as the author of tasklist I'd _really_ like to know why you dislike
> tasklist? Just saying that it's bad doesn't do much good. Saying _why_
> it's bad, what features you like, what features you don't like would
> help me a lot.
> 
> You should also keep in mind that 1.1 is an UNSTABLE version with
> UNTESTED code. All features aren't implemented yet, but we're working on
> it.
> 
> You also complain about the memory issues. First of all we plan to
> replace the existing WM interaction code with gwmh which both desk-guide
> and tasklist uses. That'll allow for the code to be shared. We also plan
> to make the desk-guide and the tasklist a multi-applet and that'll
> reduce memory usage even more. However, this won't be done until
> tasklist and desk-guide are fully debugged.
> 
> If you don't like living on the bleeding edge you're free to use October
> GNOME with gnome-pager.
> 
> //andersca
> andersca@gnu.org
> 
> 
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