From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:02 +0100 Message-ID: <43BDB302.5070107@student.lu.se> References: <54321A2A-3F36-4416-B473-49AC11FF057F@gmail.com> <853bk5gwa8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <792D87C1-B9A9-495E-9335-7139845D1CB0@gmail.com> <85fyo4zvei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sls47lvd.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <85wthftsme.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85mziasu6z.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <851wzmsqcs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <43BD9505.9070309@student.lu.se> <85lkxupbbl.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <43BDA9EB.1030009@student.lu.se> <85d5j6p74q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136505646 7319 80.91.229.2 (6 Jan 2006 00:00:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:00:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 01:00:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euf24-0005O7-RK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:00:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euf3o-0008B6-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Euf3M-0008Aw-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Euf3M-0008Aj-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:01:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euf3L-0008Af-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Euf4x-0006aW-D1; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43ABF6D5003385E3; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 01:00:02 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: <85d5j6p74q.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32473 Archived-At: David Kastrup wrote: >Better for who? > > In this context: Promote free software. Sorry if I was unclear. > > >>To me the answer is not self evident. Providing this "things" could >>in the long run make a pressure on GNU/Linux to provide them too. >> >> > >What is good about pressure? Pressure does not resolve itself >magically without somebody actually having to work on it. If some >functionality is worth working on it, it will be so without artificial >pressure to mimic a proprietary system. > > Excuse my bad wording/english. This is of course just a misunderstanding. Without someone explicitly or implicitly asking for a feature nothing will happen either. >Basically it is a matter of which window manager you use. There are >some of them explicitly designed for mouse avoidance. > > Thanks, but I want them all to help me with this. It is a matter of accessibility for many people.