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Re: Translation for extension is a bad idea


From: Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Translation for extension is a bad idea
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:51:54 +1000
Message-ID: <20000714125154.A9841@triangle.ee.uts.edu.au>

> > As I see it, there are a couple of reasons why Sawfish has been more
> > popular than Scwm:
> > 
> > 1) Performance (esp. startup) of Scwm is still poor.  I fault Guile
> > mostly here, as we all know that Guile's not got the fastest startup
> > time.  (Things are improved in 1.4, to be sure, but not enough, yet.)
> 
> I hardly think it is fair to blame startup time. How often do you restart
> your window manager? I restart mine on average once every few weeks.

very peripheral remark...actually quite a number of times during the
day (when the laptops i happen to get deal well w/ switching to
external displays and hibernation and suspension, probably a lot
less).  also, a lot more when trying to debug window manager related
problems ;-)

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