[GEM Development] Hello

Thu Nov 5 18:53:18 PST 2009

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:19:48 -0600, "Michael Henry"
<bromichaelhenry at gmail.com> said:
> Cool, then please help shane and GEM32 for linux. Please. :D

I will if it seems worth it. *smiles softly* The bloat in everyone's
favourite open-source OS runs much deeper than the desktop and makes it
unnecessarily hard to work with in some areas. The worst part of it is
the number of people who seem to think nothing's wrong. For example,
contrast the actions of Google engineers with the attitude of the
blogger reporting them:
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2009/11/04/#20091104-android_mythbusters

> 
> No seriously thou Hi, I am currently fed up with the too.  They keep
> getting
> bigger and bigger sigh
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis
> <eekee57 at fastmail.fm>wrote:
> 
> > Hallooo! I forget when I subscribed to this list, except I'm sure it was
> > one of many times when I got really fed up with all available window
> > managers and desktops. I quickly got distracted from GEM, hence never
> > posted, and generally forgot about it until these "hellos". :) Lately
> > I've been thinking about coding a window system similar to Plan 9's for
> > my linux boxes, but Plan 9's window system doesn't offer half what GEM
> > does.
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:49:13 -0600, "Michael Henry"
> > <bromichaelhenry at gmail.com> said:
> > > That is a great idea....I wish I was a programmer, but GEM would be
> > > better
> > > on POSIX or *ix platforms that X and some of the Window Managers. I still
> > > don't like KDE 4.x. It has too many random crashes than 3.5, so GEM would
> > > be
> > > an improvement...
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Shane Gough <goughsw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have to admit being somewhat slack myself.
> > > >
> > > > I set up projects for a standard GEM API and a 32 bit implementation of
> > > > that API on POSIX platforms on SourceForge (projects gemapi and gemix
> > > > respectively). I had the idea that GEM would be an interesting UI for
> > > > embedded or mobile devices (fairly simple and easy to extend is a good
> > > > start, lightweight is perfect for embedded or mobile) and that a more
> > > > 'modern' API (as in definitions and language representation - not the
> > ABI)
> > > > would be a good start.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately 'real life' intervened (as it does) and I'm left with
> > half
> > > > finished source code for experimental implementations for the moment. I
> > do
> > > > intend to get back to it, but I have no idea when.
> > > >
> > > > Shane
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:23 PM, José Emilio Mori Recio <
> > > > jem at archivalladolid.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I also keep on reading, but there are very few things to read.
> > > >> Unfortunately
> > > >> I've been waiting for almost a year for the GEM wiki, and then the
> > backup
> > > >> wiki, to be fixed in order to access and work on it, but it seems
> > there's
> > > >> no
> > > >> interest, even offering to do it myself. If things keep going this way
> > and
> > > >> there's no help, I'm planning to eventually build a new wiki myself in
> > our
> > > >> server, re-using (or not) some of the "GEM domains" which are almost
> > > >> unused
> > > >> now, if their owners agree. Time will tell.
> > > >>
> > > >> //     José Emilio Mori Recio - http://www.gui.uva.es/~jem<http://www.gui.uva.es/%7Ejem>
> > <http://www.gui.uva.es/%7Ejem>        \\
> > > >> || Administrador Informático, Arzobispado de Valladolid y Archivo  ||
> > > >> \\ Miembro 088 del Grupo Universitario de Informática, Valladolid  //
> > > >>
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> 
> -- 
> Bro. Michael Henry
> Associate Pastor
> Monticello Christian Church
> 
> "Jesus Christ didn't die to make you a self-centered religionist...He
> died
> so that you and I could stop living for ourselves, and start living for
> others. Courage is the highest expression of humility; it's coming to
> that
> place where we say 'Father, my life is not about me. It's about You.' "
> 
> 1 Timothy 1:15  "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all
> acceptation,
> that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am
> chief."