On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 02:33 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > In recent times some stupid (IMHO) ideas have been adopted in Linux > > just to copy what others do. Just as examples: the control of desktop > > widgets in KDE4 (functional GUI elements modified by a mouse-over???), > > I only know of 2 plasmoids triggering actions on mouse-over: > * the folder view's popping up of subfolders. This is not an active action, > it's just displaying stuff, I don't see how this is fundamentally different > from a tooltip. You don't actually CHANGE anything in the folders or files > without a mouse click, it just shows you stuff. > * Lancelot's clickless mode. While those are true actions (i.e. they're > active), this mode is a deliberate OPTION (i.e. it can be turned off) in a > plasmoid which is not shown by default, nor even INSTALLED by default (it's > in kdeplasma-addons). > > I don't think either is a real problem. > > > the fast-user-switching approach (the Unix way is to have > > multiple X servers). > > FWIW, KDE/KDM uses the "multiple X servers" approach. There are advantages > and drawbacks to either method. Unfortunately, the different approaches mean > user switching doesn't work with KDE under GDM nor with GNOME under KDM, > which is the only real problem I see in that area (and one of my semi-secret > plans is to try to fix this at some point one way or the other, but I'm way > too busy). So does gdm use multiple X servers, I wasn't aware there was any other way. Dave. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
