Re: WM Extended Spec Summary, 6/21/99

[Matthias Clasen <clasen pong mathematik uni-freiburg de>]

> 
> Please not. IMO we shall not announce it before the actual work was done.
> Otherwise the work will suffer by too many people making too many comments with
> too little background. It's easy to contact all window manager maintainers and
> toolkit vendors, so there's no need for a wider audience. Personally, I don't
> think we have the time to to discuss WM and toolkit design questions with people
> who don't work in that realm. What makes it worse is that WMs are a kind of
> delicious topic. Once you announce it in public, people will spam us with
> things like "Make a hint for pie menus" etc.
> 
> As an alternative, we could of course allow subscription only on invitation.
> Requirement is either work on a window manager, work on a toolkit or work on
> the basic libraries of an application development framework.  I'd prefer
> working in silence, though, since the nonsense that we will read on /. after
> such an announcement will surely not increase my motivation ;-)
> 

I second this.

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Matthias Clasen, 
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