Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

2010-06-16 Thread Will Light
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David Tweed wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Will Light wrote: >>  but the notion of a browser-based terminal >> for a local machine just seems ridiculous...and that's a mild example! >>  a browser-based music sequencer or vid

Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

2010-06-14 Thread Will Light
> But the reason it's successful (where "successful" means "popular") is > because it's offloaded the responsibility to get things working from the > end receiver to the developer, isn't it? -POLM yeah, the web has completely changed the way that applications are distributed to the users. for app

Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

2010-06-14 Thread Will Light
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Alexander Teinum wrote: > Personally I would love to see a minimalistic replacement, and I have > followed the Wayland development for some time. Since the computer is > almost never used without a web browser, I’d like to see the web > browser engine run in fullsc

Re: [dev] Fwd: OT:GUI wireless connections management?

2010-05-29 Thread Will Light
arch linux has netcfg, which I use. it, like wicd, can be a little warty, but the whole thing is written in bash and doesn't require a UI. adding network profiles is done through editing conf files in /etc/network.d/ http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg -w On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:57 PM

Re: [dev] HG and python

2010-03-10 Thread Will Light
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Uriel wrote: > Actually it is sad that git moved from 'small specialized tools' > towards a more centralized/monolithic model. But nobody will miss the > dependency on perl... Git is still an array of small specialized tools, they just don't all get dumped in /usr