I usually stick to IceWM and xterm. In my book, they have yet to improve
on xterm. All the other terminals don't even handle logging, to my knowledge.
With xterm, I can use my .Xdefaults file on every *nix in existence. Both KDE
and Gnome have their own systems instead of respecting X resources, and that
just pisses me off.
Mike
On 28/06/02 Steve Juranich did speaketh:
> Last night, while I was doing my nightly 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I caught the
> new gnome-terminal package (2.0). I can't help but saying that I think it
> really stinks. :<
>
> It grabbed this huge 100dpi font for the toolbar. There weren't nearly as many
> configuration options as in the older version. None of the fonts that I was
> able to choose from looked "right". The 'translucent background' option also
> blurred the background image. All in all, it was much, much uglier than the
> earlier versions of gnome-terminal.
>
> Since well over half of my time in front of a computer is spent looking at a
> terminal, it MUST be somewhat appealing. I know that there's only so much
> that a designer can do with lines of text, but it seems like this new version
> was such a step backwards as far as visual appeal goes.
>
> I just had to get this off of my chest. I'm interested in knowing if there
> are other debianites out there that have similar feelings about the new
> gnome-terminal. I'm not saying that I'm switching to KDE (yet), but I am
> greatly disappointed in this latest gnome app.
>
> Cheers.
>
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> Stephen W. Juranich sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
> Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
> University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli
>
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