[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Mon May 12 15:26:00 CDT 2003


On Monday 12 May 2003 21:17, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Er, are you guys sure you aren't on crack??
>
> Yep.
>
> KDE and Gnome are both steps backwards.
>
> They have a lot of features, but its a bloated, incoherent mess.

I can't judge on either of these 3 from a programmers view...

> > I blame the primitive widget set (scroll bars don't react to middle-click
> > etc)
>
> It's not primitive.  That's on purpose.
>
> Personally, I like how Athena did things. It's a much easier way to use
> a scrollbar.

I like that functionality... I even like transparant menu's from time to time 
but I'd be glad if they removed that kinda crap from Qt. X and transparancy 
is a no-go.

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