Hi,
anyone can agree that this is a little bit more clearer?
<snip>
Description: Display program shortcuts as icons on desktop
With idesk you can define shortcut's for several programs
and display these icons with a short description on the
desktop of any window manager.
.
It can use png images as icon source (including transparent
support) and support antialised fonts to print the description.
</snip>
Thanks for you help...
----- Forwarded message from Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> -----
The current description doesn't fullfill it's purpose.
> idesk plops icons down on your root window (desktop).
`Plops'? What's that?
And wearing my dummy desktop user hat, WTF is a root window?
> It includes support for PNG alpha layers, and pretty antialiased text
> with Xft
Same hat; what are alpha layers and Xft?
I'd rather just talk about translucent [1] icons and pretty antialiased [2]
text without mentioning PNG alpha layers or Xft.
Also, this sentence needs a . at the end, and it could be separated from the
previous one (although that isn't strictly necessary).
Now, I've read the entire description, and either as a dummy or non-dummy
user I still don't know what I can do with the icons. Are they:
- some sort of shortcuts?
- actual files and directories?
- both?
- icons for minimized applications, as in the iconbox of some motif based
desktops?
Regards,
Filip
[1] Assuming that's what it does; if it only means that the icons can have
completely transparant parts that's hardly a feature, and I'd rather
consider it a misfeature of any icon using app which doesn't do that.
[2] It's debatable if a dummy user knows what antialiased text is, but it is
good enough a feature to mention it even if only for more experienced
computer users.
----- End forwarded message -----
Bye
Thorsten
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Thorsten Sauter
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