Drucer Ninetynine wrote:
--- Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
E16 was popular with the tweaker set and I know e17
will be as
well. I personally have no use for weird bitmap
themes or
partially transparent terminals or
white-on-dark-brown color
schemes or weird ornamental fonts that make me feel
like I'm
using a fake computer on the set of one of the CSI's
or a
desktop interface that consists of "right click on
the desktop
to do anything", and that's what I remember from
e16. I think
you just have to be a little more, uh, elite than me
to
appreciate that stuff.
It's not about elitism and it's not about wanting
fonts that look obscure. It's about personality. It's
about having that complete freedom to choose how your
desktop looks and behaves. I think a lot of us people
who make music want to have a personal touch even when
it comes to their desktop software. The reason I
brought up this conversation was to find out how you
artists feel about WM that was created by artists.
Carsten Haitzler (aka rasterman) - the main man behind
the Enlightenment project has said that he's not a
coder, he's just an artist who has to write code to
make art.
I imagine he said that with tongue in cheek.
Part of the reason that e17 has taken so long to get to this stage is
because Raster has been otherwise employed in Tokyo working for Dokomo
writing code for their latest Linux based cellphones among other things.
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