[Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

Michael Natterer mitch at gimp.org
Thu Feb 21 03:42:17 PST 2008


On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:34 +1030, David Gowers wrote:
> There is no guarantee that there will be any taskbar at all. On linux,
> there are plenty of WM's that either provide a taskbar that is not
> suitable to implement your described behaviour, or no taskbar at all (
> i use one of these myself, DWM (http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm)).
> IMO taskbars are a kludge, and it is a mistake for an application to
> *depend* on them for basic usability.

To quote from that "Window Manager's" web page:

"Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's
pointless to
 make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist.
 No novices asking stupid questions."

I think you just disqualified yourself to say anything about
usability here.

ciao,
--mitch



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