[Gllug] Transparent Terminal

[Ashley Evans]

On Sunday 05 December 2004 23:42, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Ashley Evans moaned:
> > On Sunday 05 December 2004 10:10, Nix wrote:
> >> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Ashley Evans stated:
> >> And the transparency in the KDE menus doesn't update as the occluded
> >> window changes.
> >>
> >> Bah. Half-hearted job.
> >
> > Agreed. But, given the state a certain other thread it may be wise not to
> > do too much KDE bashing right now :)
>
> KDE *bashing*? Compared to GNOME, it's glorious: wonderfully integrated
> and with all sorts of nifty bits of configurability all over the shop.

wrt KDE bashing I meant that whenever a preference to either of the two more 
common Linux gui environments it mention it seems that a battle always 
follows.  wrt the extra configuration options in KDE I think that's just down 
to different approaches to gui design.  I prefer the nifty bit you speak 
of... Others like, or are more suited, in the case of non computer literates, 
to GNOME's simplistic approach. 

> And the shell-script access to DCOP and things makes the CORBA stuff in
> GNOME look pathetic, although notably GNOME seems to be pulling CORBA
> and Bonobo components *out* of everything now... KDE is very heavily
> componented, and gets a lot more work out of a lot less code. GNOME,
> well, it doesn't seem to be componented at all. If it wasn't for
> <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47320>, Konqueror would be my
> default web browser: I actually find myself using it instead of the
> shell at times, which is very unusual for me.
>
> Plus it looks much cooler than GNOME. :)

Funny you say that, even though I prefer KDE overall I like the look and feel 
of GNOME... For me the most happy medium would be all of the nifty bits and 
stuff to play with of KDE but the simplicity of GNOME's default UI.  This may 
sound a bit contradictory but it makes sense in my head.

Ashley

>
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>  Only now, at the end of all things do we see
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