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  1. Re:Thank Goodness on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    Weird, this other gnome user just posted that there are no plans to add a UI to do it because noone cares.

    Now I am confused.

    Or you went and modified the themes resource files by hand?

  2. Re:Just a style on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    Well, I wrote a rss aggregator, andit sure is nice to be able to embed a web browser so you can follow the blogs links without necessarily opening a separate window.

    And for an etext reader, the chance to display PDF, web pages or plain text just by switching the part is nifty.

    Really, if developers think about it, and its easy to do, and there are interesting parts, it *is* useful for the user.

    In fact, you use parts in KDE without even noticing most of the the time, I dont know why it was described as "in your face" before :-)

  3. Re:Thank Goodness on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    Uh... its really a very simple UI. Check it out.

    Besides, it is not really related to theme picking at all. Both things are orthogonal.

  4. Re:Just a style on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    But what interesting Bonobo components are out there that would make KDE benefit from using them, and what bonobo container apps can benefit from using KParts?

  5. Re:Why do we need two widgets? on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    In a system with multiple inheritance, just because QObject is the base of all Qt classes (it isnt anyway), that doesnt mean its a single rooted class hierarchy.

    So, the previous poster was technically a little off, you are somewhat off, and your generalization is stupid anyway.

  6. Re:Just a style on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 1

    Wasnt gnome abandoning bonobo?

  7. Re:Thank Goodness on Unifying GTK & QT Theme Engines · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, lets say you like brushed metal or whatever,but you also like the auvergine color.

    Right now, IIRC, the color is part of the theme in gnome, and you need to find an "auvergine-brushed-metal" somewhere.

    On KDE, the widget look and the color are separate, and can be configured at will.

  8. Re:Nice effort, but . . . on Native KOffice for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    If you really believe the hard part of writting an office suite is not the coding, dude, you are insane.

  9. Re:You've heard of south american death squads? on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    There should have been a nifty "not equal" between politics and waging there. Looks like "plain old text" is not so plain, so old, or so text.

  10. Re:You've heard of south american death squads? on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    Interference in south american politics waging war on communism on south america

  11. Re:You've heard of south american death squads? on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    Dude, I live in Buenos Aires, and am 32 years old, what do you think? BTW: Death squad is a name invented by US press, we call them differently. For example, we call them "the army" or "the federal police".

    Death squad is what the fuckheads in Rio who kill homeless kids are called. Thats not exactly war on communism.

    Had britain fallen, that would in no way have guaranteed Nazi victory, you know. Hell, they would have probably had to divert more troops to occupy the islands than they had defending the french coast.

  12. Re:No, I actually believe that. on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    Uh... the US was a minor player in WWII. The whole western front was much, much smaller than the eastern front.

    So, Id say Communist russia defeated nazism, with help from the US.

    And what fucking war against communism took place in South America, dude?

    Are you drunk,or just ignorant?

  13. Re:What are you smoking? on KDE 3.x Installation On Solaris Discussed · · Score: 1

    Extremely rare? Linking proprietary code to the kernel?

    Have you been living in a cave, or have you not heard of proprietary drivers?

    You need that for every cheap modem sold today. And it cant be fixed because the algorithms implemented are covered by patents.

  14. Re:I'm not a kde lover but.. on KDE 3.x Installation On Solaris Discussed · · Score: 1

    You are not a KDE lover, yes. You are also a silly person who confuses difficulty with complexity, and system administration with tinkering.

    Unless you are arrogant enough to presume that just because they are using a Sun box you know what they are doing, or that for every task anyone can tackle on a Sun box fluxbox is the answer, you are also wrong.

    How, pray tell, do you browse the web using fluxbox? How do you send email using fluxbox?

    You dont. You use other apps. KDE provides all those apps in a single comprehensive integrated package.

    For those who actually use their computers to do work, such solutions have a place.

    BTW: I once had librarians (60-year-old computer phobic old grannies, really a living stereotype), using KDE 1 on Solaris. Had they been forced to use CDE, they would have had a second menopause.

  15. Re:FUD, FUD, FUD!!! on UserLinux May Go Without KDE · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are allowed, as long as what you are distributing is not a wrapper or a GUI programming library.

    At least that's what I've heard.

  16. PyCS && PyDS on How to Set Up a Gift Website? · · Score: 1

    You can set both up on a server, very nice to use, fully web based.

    I use them for my site: www.pycs.net/lateral

    If you don't want to handle the hosting, the pycs guys give accounts for free.

  17. That's not french, it's roman. on Mars Sundials - True Colors, Ambiguous Hours · · Score: 1

    That's roman. Am I the only one who read "each hour hurts, the last one kills" and thought... hey, that's just a bad translation of "vulnerant omnia, ultima necat"?

    The original is better because it only says "each one hurts, the last one kills", adding "hours" makes it too obvious, and lessens the effect.

    If anyone said this already, sorry, I am not reading the comments if that prevents me from writing a pedantic nitpick.

  18. Re:If I don't have to sign to get a EULA... on Microsoft Sends Takedown Notice To MSFreePC.com · · Score: 1

    Because the legal document that granted you the refund says that you have to? You can say, "I don't agree to having to sign", but then you are disagreing to get the refund, too.

  19. Re:The letter text is on Newsforge on Microsoft Sends Takedown Notice To MSFreePC.com · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup. If the claim has to be signed, a site saying that you don't need to sign one, yet promises to handle your claim seems either fraudulent, or at least useless and misleading.

  20. Re:Measure the frequency of your microwave instead on Measure The Speed Of Light With Your Microwave · · Score: 1

    because then a billion rules would have to be destroyed.

    And because all references to meters would have to be expressed in meters and old meters.

    Basically, for the same reason you guys in the USA still measure the speed of light in furlongs per forthnight (that's 1.8026175x10^12 fur/fort)

  21. Re:What is the speed of Slashdot? on Measure The Speed Of Light With Your Microwave · · Score: 1

    Well, Fark.com picked it up yesterday, I guess some people contribute links to slashdot and like to make it look like they found them. Bad karma!

    Hell, I posted it yesterday at my own blog ;-)

  22. At least now Red Hat will have decent KDE packages on Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://kde-redhat.sf.net

  23. Re:What about patent-protected multimedia and DMCA on Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora · · Score: 1

    The algorithm to encode and decode MP3s is patented in the US, so, if you are there, it is pretty much owned, since writing code for those purposes without paying royalties is illegal.

  24. Re:Why not something really geeky? on Red Hat Linux Project Merges With Fedora · · Score: 1

    Hmm... chapeaux and sombreros are also headgear.

  25. And the web browser is KHTML-based on PIXIL Embedded GUI Stack Released Under GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Showing once more that code is pretty easy to port (they did the exact same thing Apple did, only using older code and FLTK :-)

    I wonder if their Qt/FLTK adapter is good for something else. Or if that browser could be used on very small boxes.