Comments on: Xfce 4.4 http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/ news for few, stuff no-one cares about Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/comment-page-1/#comment-34270 Colin Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:26:41 +0000 http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/#comment-34270 <i>reactive also means that some work is being done in threads instead of blocking the user interface.</i> That's not really my definition of reactive. It can play a little part, non-blocking is of course always better than blocking, but reactive is, in my definition, the fact that a given task is performed in a short time. I'd prefer a GUI frozen for a few milliseconds than a non-blocked GUI with a nice progress bar that does the same job in two seconds :) reactive also means that some work is being done in threads instead of blocking the user interface.

That’s not really my definition of reactive. It can play a little part, non-blocking is of course always better than blocking, but reactive is, in my definition, the fact that a given task is performed in a short time. I’d prefer a GUI frozen for a few milliseconds than a non-blocked GUI with a nice progress bar that does the same job in two seconds :)

]]> By: DINH Viêt Hoà http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/comment-page-1/#comment-33816 DINH Viêt Hoà Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:04:29 +0000 http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/#comment-33816 reactive also means that some work is being done in threads instead of blocking the user interface. I've also been using XFCE for long now and I also prefer it over gnome, window maker or ctwm (I have been using the latter for a long time before XFCE). reactive also means that some work is being done in threads instead of blocking the user interface.

I’ve also been using XFCE for long now and I also prefer it over gnome, window maker or ctwm (I have been using the latter for a long time before XFCE).

]]> By: Colin http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/comment-page-1/#comment-33428 Colin Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:41:06 +0000 http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/#comment-33428 Indeed :) I've been working on making static all functions that should have been, but weren't for some reason (laziness?) on Claws recently. Next step will be useless-includes-hunting. The change is usually visible! Indeed :)

I’ve been working on making static all functions that should have been, but weren’t for some reason (laziness?) on Claws recently. Next step will be useless-includes-hunting. The change is usually visible!

]]> By: Pierre Phaneuf http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/comment-page-1/#comment-33311 Pierre Phaneuf Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:03:20 +0000 http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/01/31/xfce-44/#comment-33311 You know how I've made comments relative to building our code ever faster at work? How I twiddle makefiles, cut out code and remove unused includes? Out of the 20 developers at NITI, all ran Linux, but there was something like two KDE users and one GNOME user. I used Window Maker (with all of 600KB of memory usage! on an SMP Athlon with a gigabyte of RAM, of course) and most of my co-workers actually used ion, yes. It's <em>never</em> fast enough. :-) You know how I’ve made comments relative to building our code ever faster at work? How I twiddle makefiles, cut out code and remove unused includes?

Out of the 20 developers at NITI, all ran Linux, but there was something like two KDE users and one GNOME user. I used Window Maker (with all of 600KB of memory usage! on an SMP Athlon with a gigabyte of RAM, of course) and most of my co-workers actually used ion, yes.

It’s never fast enough. :-)

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