Re: reviving sawfish development.

[John Harper <jsh unfactored org>]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Janek Kozicki wrote:

> Please however understand that there should be a difference between:
>
> A. Project being dead
> B. Project being finished.

right, in (B) you still fix bugs, but not add features

> 2. There was an attempt to add support for tabs in sawfish by  
> writing a
>   plugin. This attempt was so-so succesfull, because the author said
>   that sawfish simply does not support tabs, and his plugin is a
>   workaround around sawfish limitations using some lisp hacking.

it should be possible to implement this in lisp

> > But if someone wants to create an active branch in the
> > gnome svn repository and work on it, that's fine with me.
> > If any changes get enough testing coverage and look sane,
> > they can be merged back into the trunk,
>
> Yes! That's the spirit. Create a branch, and allow him to work there.
> We better avoid making a fork in separate repository, becaue this may
> lead to too much fragmentation and additional problems with merging.

the two options are basically equivalent, except you wouldn't need a  
gnome svn account

> PS: are you using sawfish on your desktop?

not regularly. I typically run Apple's quartz-wm

	John