Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Tim Kelley wrote: On Friday 03 September 2004 17:01, John Lowell wrote: For little trivial things like dockapps, well, I wouldn't care, but it can get messy. If you are going to use pinning and grab stuff from different branches, it is really best to grab the src-deb with apt-build

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
- Albert Einstein Thank you, Lance, for a very helpful reply. To answer your question about the type of dock appts I'm considering, they are very largely WMs. jlowell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Thomas Adam wrote: I must have missed the part where you are owed a response. I suggested that a response was owed? I said simply that one was not made. You completely misrepresent my comment. Do me the kindness of never responding to a question I raise here in the future please. jlowell -- T

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Jacob S.
t; > "stable" and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it > > occured to me that the use of non-Debian packages might equally be > > discouraged. The dock appts I'm considering are in most cases > > non-Debian packages and in the few i

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Tim Kelley
> that the use of non-Debian packages might equally be discouraged. The > dock appts I'm considering are in most cases non-Debian packages and in > the few instances where they are Debian packages, they're "unstable" or > "stable". For little trivial thin

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
> 1. Is the Debian versioning system so rigid as too require only the > installation of Debian packages? I ask because installation of "stable" > and "unstable " packages is clearly discouraged and it occured to me > that the use of non-Debian packages might equ

Re: Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread Thomas Adam
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:01:10PM -0400, John Lowell wrote: > Not what I'd call a torrential response to my first message regarding > dock appts so I thought I'd write again in the hope that someone might > help at this time. :-) I must have missed the part where you are owe

Dock Appts II

2004-09-03 Thread John Lowell
Not what I'd call a torrential response to my first message regarding dock appts so I thought I'd write again in the hope that someone might help at this time. :-) Although I'm by no means new to GNU/LInux, I am new to Debian. I've recently installed "testing" inc

Dock Appts

2004-09-02 Thread John Lowell
I'm new to Debian and learning the system. I have a minimal "testing" set-up here which I got using the business card iso with base packages, fluxbox, links (which I use in graphical mode for downloads) firefox and thunderbird installed. I'd like to use dock appts instead o