Re: xsnow

2010-12-02 Thread lucas.g...@gmail.com
That's kinda sad...

Re-implementation as GPL seems the best course...

G

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Adam Borowski  wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:11:09PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > As every year x-mas is coming closer and it is time to start xsnow to
> > get the right feeling. :-)
> >
> > Unfortunately the package is only available for i386 and the maintainer,
> > Martin Lazar, seems not to react to the bug (#457742), that is open
> > since 2007. At least for amd64 it is pretty easy to build the package,
> > there is no need to alter. Just apt-get build-dep xsnow; debuild; dpkg
> > -i ../xsnow*.deb.
>
> A maintainer is not supposed to have access to all architectures and build
> stuff there by hand.  That's the problem with non-free.
>
> I wonder if the procedure in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html
> still stands.
>
> > There are also other bugs, partly with a patch but no reaction of
> > Martin.
>
> These bugs are unfixable.  The license disallows any modifications save for
> the makefile.  And considering how badly xsnow runs for example on my
> system
> this makes it pretty worthless.
>
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Re: xsnow

2010-12-02 Thread lucas.g...@gmail.com
Awesome, thank you.

G

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Paul Wise  wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM, lucas.g...@gmail.com
>  wrote:
>
> > That's kinda sad...
> >
> > Re-implementation as GPL seems the best course...
>
> If you are using compiz it looks like there is a plugin for that:
>
> http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Snow
>
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2012-01-09 Thread lucas.g...@gmail.com
Way to spam everyone else.
G

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