Re: kde still sucks and gnome2 rocks why?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:11:39 -0800,
Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:24:10AM -0500, Walter Tautz [MFCF]
> wrote:
> > I'd love to hear an analysis of why gnome2 rocks and kde does
> > not. Perhaps others would like to read about it :-)
[...]
> However, one thing that tweaks me about both DEs, still, is
> that they go out and clone xterm. Uuh, why? And why make it
> as ugly and only slightly more useful than Windows Telnet? I
> realise that DE's are supposed to be most helpful for newbies,
> but *jeeze*, I have to wonder if anybody stopped for a moment
> and thought that maybe unleashing something as garish and
> stubborn as Windows Telnet on the Linux community isn't the
> right thing to do.
Are you talking about the xterm that comes with XFree86? My
friendly neighborhood dict [WordNet (r) 1.7.1 (July 2002)]
defines "garish" as "tastelessly showy". How can something as
plain vanilla as xterm be "garish"? What are your ideas about a
better xterm? I hope you're not suggesting that thing that comes
with OSX?
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