[Rule-list] TinyX and RULE

[Marco Fioretti]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 22:59:27 at 10:59:27PM +0100, Martin Stricker  shugal at gmx.de  wrote:
> Michael Fratoni wrote:
> 
> 
> > It's not KDE or Gnome, but it's fairly functional. It has the added
> > bonus that the window manager is up and running in under 10 seconds.
> > Both KDE and Gnome (Using the stock X server) took several minutes to
> > load.
> > 
> > fluxbox can also display kde (and gnome, I believe) applets as well.
> > I tried klaptopdaemon, and it worked. However, it also used 25% of
> > the available memory. 12M for a battery icon seemed a little much. ;)
> 
> WHOW! That's incredible! Thanks a lot for doing this! BTW, any plans to
> try XFce?
>
Ideally, wouldn't it be better if, when a package is available in RPM
form, everybody tests it with his WM and favourite applications? All
coming from psyche rpm packages? (**) Personally, for example, I'd try
it with original blackbox, rox, and probably openoffice, just to see
what happens.

Putting it another way: I'm probably not good enough to hack the code
as Michael, but I and many others can certainly debug it under many
more different conditions if we try to match it each one to our
favorite apps and report. Or not?

	Ciao,

		Marco Fioretti

(**) Which of course doesn't prevent at all tests from tarballs and/or
suse, debian, slackware, whatever. Every feedback is welcome, and a
stable, well known, tiny X server for desktop use is something sorely
missed by all distributions, as far as I know.
 


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