RE: alert : water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

[Joris Lambrecht <jlambrec@landis.be>]

This thread is getting REALLY hard to follow. I suggest people start
splitting it up or simply shut it down. This was my last post/read on this
thread.

ps : does kita somewhat resemble the meaning of p.i.t.a ? then it's funny,
otherwise it's confusing :))

-----Original Message-----
From: David Raleigh Arnold [mailto:drarn@toward.com]
Sent: woensdag 11 april 2001 17:53
To: Joris Lambrecht; 'Kevin Stokes'; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.


       Joris Lambrecht <jlambrec@landis.be>
> To really start a fire here ...
1. In many new packages, maybe most, the developers just press on and
don't
pay attention to stable and unstable until they attain a version 1.x.
What good is it to have a version 0.4 instead of 0.7 of anything in a
"stable"
distribution? Does "stable" have to be *so* old? Why not evaluate each
package of pre-1.0 programs according to reality instead of policy?
2. It is unspeakable that I have to use Ctl-leftbutton when I have a
3-button mouse. It is *terrible* ergonomics. *All* non-windows
developers, not just linux, should withdraw support for 1 and 2 button
mice, and force those silly enough not to replace them (for $2.00) to
use meta and ctrl combinations. 7 logical buttons, which is what you
have with a 3-button mouse, should work without menus and configuration
files or any such nonsense. I should be able to configure left handed,
etc., with *one* program. You don't successfully compete with windows
by mindlessly aping its *worst* features. It makes *every* program that
works with a gui *much* less good and some really insane, like emacs.
(and xemacs, presumably because X is pathetic that way too.) 
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     DaveA (Debian User)=====================
       The journey of a thousand miles begins
                 with but a single KITA.
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