[TAG] Re: [Lgang] linuxgazette.net down......

Thomas Adam thomas_adam at bonbon.net
Mon May 24 05:51:09 MSD 2004


On Sun, 23 May 2004 21:42:32 -0400
Ben Okopnik <ben at callahans.org> wrote:

> Oh. My. Gawd.
> 
> I will definitely have to check out fvwm, then. Last I looked at it,
> it_was_ butt-ugly; the stuff above is just knockout-beautiful.

Pfft, if you like transparency and frilly eye-candied stuff, then yeah.
I am _very_ backwards when it comes to fvwm, and I prefer the
MWM-emulation. Hehe, what can I say? To me, the definition of how _my_
WM should look can be seen from the screenshots depicted here:

http://www.xwinman.org/fvwm.html

> > I've been kind, Jimmy, and skipped what would have been a huge rant
> > in your direction....  since we're going way off-topic from what we
> > initially started to talk about, not to mention this has been done
> > to death by us both in the past. :)
> 
> [blink] I hope I'm not sticking a finger in any old wounds or stirring
> the coals of a flamewar, but I seem to have missed a few beats; I
> don't remember anything like the above. Unless this was a private
> discussion. Has there been a GUI vs. CLI religious debate here, or in
> a nearby pub somewhere?

Ben, this whole discussion stems back to the Windows-defector days of
months gone.... 

-- Thomas Adam

-- 
"Annie Hall leaves New York in the end. Press rewind, and Woody gets her
back again." -- "Look Inside America", Blur.





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