Re: Status of libxaw8 for xorg 7.0
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:26:54PM +0200, David Mart?nez Moreno wrote:
> El lunes, 27 de marzo de 2006 00:51, David Nusinow escribi?:
> > To be honest, I'd love to kill xaw8, but I still haven't done the survey of
> > packages depending on it to see if any actually need this feature. I doubt
> > any of them do, but I want to be sure of it. Mainly my hesitation about
> > killing xprint in Debian now is that cairo isn't really deployed in full
> > with printing support yet, so there's no great replacement available and
> > tested. As much as I wish it were so, it's not.
> >
> > Ender started to tell people not to use xaw8 without the survey a few
> > months ago, then when I asked him to ask around about it first he vanished.
> > So I'll try and put together the email tonight.
>
> So I vanished...:-) Yes, completely true. BTW, I sent to you an email about
> that subject some days ago, but you did not reply so far.
Yeah, I got it. I'm really sorry, I've just been so swamped with all this
modular madness.
> I am a little bond to other things yet, but I am desiring to help in X as
> much as I can. :-)
Great to hear! I've been missing having you around :-)
>
> Do we have maintainer for Wacom as of today? Yesterday I finally received my
> Graphire2, so I can start hacking on the current code.
Nope, I don't have the hardware and haven't had any real inclination to
work on the driver. It's 100% yours if you want it. People have been asking
for it actually, so it'd be nice to have it if you can spare the time.
- David Nusinow
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