Re: [RP] ... --solved (with my workspace scripts) -Phuk!

[TBlittlefoot]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:15:26PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Pentchev <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Peter> Of course they do have a window manager - that is, there is a part 
> of
>     Peter> what the users perceive as "the one-piece GUI/OS" that 
> specifically takes
>     Peter> care of mapping window-level requests from the application to 
> bitmap-
>     Peter> and line-drawing level requests to the low-level graphics 
> subsystem.
>     Peter> It's just that *from the user's point of view* it is not clearly
>     Peter> separated from the rest of the GUI.
> 
> Thats what I meant. As in the interface the user deals with. On
> X-Windows it can be completely different depending on what
> customisations the user has put in place. Try explaining to a novice
> user how to debug a network problem when they don't even know how to
> open an xterm a have an unknown window manager a friend setup and
> configured.

If you are interested in ignorant appliance operators, then what are you
doing in the Linux world? That's M$'s world.

Please don't try to turn Linux into an M$ clone. Just use Windows if
that's your thing.

Commercialism and Linux just don't mix. It is an amateur OS.


Tom