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Article #1756Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: David Kastrup
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
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mark@aziraphale.demon.co.uk (Mark Baker) writes: > In article <m2af3pnn8t.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, > David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes: > > Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes: > > > >> I'll never write apps for a GUI desktop, be it called kde or w!"|"| > >> doesn't matter. Good old termcap- or ncurses interfaces are the > >> best. > > > > Termcap and ncurses are evil. Anybody that has accidentally started > > worms or robots or vi on a printing teletype can tell you that. > > If they started at all, then your TERM variable was set wrong. Set it to > reflect the real capabilities of your printing teletype (i.e. almost > nothing) and it won't cause any problems, Evil does not get better by accomodating it. People also tell me "don't use more than one application on Windows, and its multitasking will not cause any problems". Out, out, foul fiend! -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <m24sts2z3y.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> X-Deja-AN: 395604373 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <6tv4h8$24u$7@blue.hex.net> <6tvcur$ken$6@news-2.news.gte.net> <slrn706f8l.qlf.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn708sck.3oh.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70amsk.6c3.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70b6md.33f.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70c61l.8uq.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70dq8b.b87.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <rzGN1.4173$F7.15421868@news.itd.umich.edu> <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <p5sohihlrc.fsf@baynetworks.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <6uc2pk$jh1$5@blue.hex.net> <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <m2af3pnn8t.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <6uh5hq$mcp$1@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 906986178 27929 134.147.176.147 (28 Sep 1998 12:36:18 GMT) Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Sep 1998 12:36:18 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss