I see in the screenshots specifically in this one that there is a feature that i have long awaited in gnome or at least long awaited to see (for all i know it was in there since the.1 days) The ability to show the icons of the app in the 'taskbar'
Call it what you like, but i find this feature useful in that when you have 20 windows open on 4 desktops an icon is much easier to locate than the three letters left in the button.
Is this feature easy to turn on by default? or is there tons of config file hacking to enable it. I would do this, but i am a full time programmer and i have no time to play with configuration details, i just need to get my work done.
Another question is there any other wm other than kwm that supports the upper left corner app icon (like win9x).
I do like using kde, but i wanted to try something different, but i did not want to waste my time dling and playing w/ libraries etc to find out the things i want/need arent there.
I know this is sortof offtopic, but i have a question, i program in perl for a living and currently i am using xemacs as my editor, but, honestly i really dont like (x)emacs, but i do like some features. The features i like are the auto tab placement. You hit tab and it places your bracket or line in the proper position in line. The 'expression parenthesis highlighting'. You place your cursor on a left or right token and it will light up the whole expression in red if there are no matching right or left tokens or green if there is a matching one. Can someone please help, i guess i should tell you i am running linux, so that eliminates windows software (obviously).
Will you be offering support for PPC and Alpha platforms?
The release CD contains i386 binaries and data files. In the next few weeks we will post PPC and Alpha binaries for download from our website. Those binaries will work with the data files on the release CD.
The PPC version will remain 'beta' and unsupported until LinuxPPC reaches version 5.0, as 5.0 is required for thread support. To play Civ:CTP on a Mac, you'll need to buy the Linux version of the game, download the PPC binary (about 8MB right now) and install LinuxPPC 5.0 beta.
What i dont understand about the emulator issue is I thought that sony and nintendo sold their hardware at a loss, one so people will buy their system over any others, and two more systems=more people buying software, which is the real momymaker. So now wouldnt emulators be good (esp the playstation one because you can play the actual disk) by enabling people to buy the softare without the console. I may be wrong, but i thought i rember reading somewhere.
cristiana
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well actually there are candy hearts, calles cyber hearts or something like that. and some of the witty sayings are:
In your post you stated the reason why cross platform widgets are preferable, they are great for web developers because we no longer have to worry such things like a drop down menubox will be unreadable on UNIX (because the motif widgets use the bgcolor as the color of the widgets, as you probably know) or the button or text box takes the font from the outside font tag (on win32) or it uses the standard system font (mac). Or that the widgets are 1 or 2 pixels bigger on one platform than another. All these items cause forms to be a big headache for web designers.
Also a web page doesn't behave or look like a native app so why should it use the same widget set. I think it would help a novice determine that a web page is different from an app on the system and be easier to understand.
I know all these benefits will be nil when the user uses another browser, but the unified widget set alleviates the problems for at least 50% of the time, so there is a benefit.
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why wouldnt a geek want to be seen with an imac, i bought one just because it's pink, and i consider myself a total geek.
cristiana
I see in the screenshots specifically in this one that there is a feature that i have long awaited in gnome or at least long awaited to see (for all i know it was in there since the .1 days) The ability to show the icons of the app in the 'taskbar'
Call it what you like, but i find this feature useful in that when you have 20 windows open on 4 desktops an icon is much easier to locate than the three letters left in the button.
Is this feature easy to turn on by default? or is there tons of config file hacking to enable it. I would do this, but i am a full time programmer and i have no time to play with configuration details, i just need to get my work done.
Another question is there any other wm other than kwm that supports the upper left corner app icon (like win9x).
I do like using kde, but i wanted to try something different, but i did not want to waste my time dling and playing w/ libraries etc to find out the things i want/need arent there.
cristiana
I know this is sortof offtopic, but i have a question, i program in perl for a living and currently i am using xemacs as my editor, but, honestly i really dont like (x)emacs, but i do like some features.
The features i like are the auto tab placement. You hit tab and it places your bracket or line in the proper position in line. The 'expression parenthesis highlighting'. You place your cursor on a left or right token and it will light up the whole expression in red if there are no matching right or left tokens or green if there is a matching one.
Can someone please help, i guess i should tell you i am running linux, so that eliminates windows software (obviously).
cristiana
On activestate's homepage there is a link to a press release about Visual Perl and Visual Pyhon for MS Visual Studio 7.0
cristiana
Actually there are ads on google, just not banner ads. i was surprised when i saw them too, just do a search for palm, or visit this link http://www.google.c om/search?q=palm&num=10&meta=hl%3Den%26lr%3D
cristiana
Will you be offering support for PPC and Alpha platforms?
The release CD contains i386 binaries and data files. In the next few weeks we will post PPC and Alpha binaries for download from our website. Those binaries will work with the data files on the release CD.
The PPC version will remain 'beta' and unsupported until LinuxPPC reaches version 5.0, as 5.0 is required for thread support. To play Civ:CTP on a Mac, you'll need to buy the Linux version of the game, download the PPC binary (about 8MB right now) and install LinuxPPC 5.0 beta.
cristiana
What i dont understand about the emulator issue is I thought that sony and nintendo sold their hardware at a loss, one so people will buy their system over any others, and two more systems=more people buying software, which is the real momymaker. So now wouldnt emulators be good (esp the playstation one because you can play the actual disk) by enabling people to buy the softare without the console. I may be wrong, but i thought i rember reading somewhere.
cristiana
well actually there are candy hearts, calles cyber hearts or something like that. and some of the witty sayings are:
defrag me
love hertz
and many more
cristiana
In your post you stated the reason why cross platform widgets are preferable, they are great for web developers because we no longer have to worry such things like a drop down menubox will be unreadable on UNIX (because the motif widgets use the bgcolor as the color of the widgets, as you probably know) or the button or text box takes the font from the outside font tag (on win32) or it uses the standard system font (mac). Or that the widgets are 1 or 2 pixels bigger on one platform than another. All these items cause forms to be a big headache for web designers.
Also a web page doesn't behave or look like a native app so why should it use the same widget set. I think it would help a novice determine that a web page is different from an app on the system and be easier to understand.
I know all these benefits will be nil when the user uses another browser, but the unified widget set alleviates the problems for at least 50% of the time, so there is a benefit.
cristiana