On 7 November 2011 20:21, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Greetings comrades, > > reading [0] got me into thinking, if we need some plain new > terminology to make suckless more usable for the press. Suck- > less by now is just a repository of tools or a philosophy. > This does not sell. Instead a whole environment could be pro- > moted, which is usable across platforms. > > This »platform« will take many ideas just from Unix, but > I think that Unix is underrepresented in Linux environments > these days. It has to be relearned. > > The idea would be to first have an identity, the »Suckless > Desktop«, which needs a logo, some texts and then links to > the various parts of suckless. This would be the entrypoint > for new users, where they can decide, what to adopt to or > just take everything. > > Of course we have huge disparities and holy fights, like how > to edit text or if it is more worthwhile to use a keyboard > or the mouse for watching porn. This could be documented and > shortened to a small »mission statement«. > > This will lower the user selection we are used to, but it > gives us an identity, that can be referred to and used for > spreading propaganda / the idea. > > And ideas (productive work) on this?
First of all I need to finish the task of 'sharpening the suckless philosophy' through removing obsolete/no fitting tools and unnecessary information. Your proposed idea can be evaluated afterwards, however I'm a bit sceptic about your proposal as this would presumably grow this community and let newbies in that aren't our focus. The term "desktop" or "desktop environment" has also a very bitter taste to it... Cheers, Anselm
