Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00

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homer_j_simpson@my-dejanews.com (Thandor)
> That greatly depends on the program. Some programs make no sense to be run
> non-interactively. Why would I want to run a game non interactively for
> example? (Just the first example off the top of my head, there are plenty
> of others).

For debugging, for example.  After trying to do the precise same
movements about ten times to reproduce a bug, you will appreciate
being able to feed the program a recorded series of mouse movements
and key presses.

And it makes sense to debug -all- programs.

--Arnt

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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/27
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