Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2008/09/07 09:12 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan composed:

> Felix Miata composed:

> > On 2008/09/07 00:10 (GMT-0400) Patrick Shanahan apparently typed:

> No, not apparently, *did*!

Until your above statement, not likely anyone on this list _knew_ you compose
your email by typing. Not everyone is physically capable of composing email
using fingers.

> And you still start your automobile with a crank?  :^)

No, but it has a manual transmission, which permits push/pull starting in the
event of failure of the conventional starting system, getting home without
waiting or paying for a tow, and does not produce bonus global warming
slipping by design. Newer != better!

>   mature != ancient

Ancient != irrelevant.
Ancient != obsolete.
Ancient != useless.

> then add two scripts with meaningful names, one killing the kicker and
> one starting the kicker to your system and link them to two icons in a
> prominent location on your desktop so that you will not forget where
> they are and what they do and try really hard to remember how to
> pointy-clicky on them with your rodent. 

Without Kicker, there is no "prominent location" on my Linux desktops. Rarely
is more than a tiny bit of desktop ever visible here, and I wouldn't normally
think to start any app by locating some desktop object under a bunch of open
app windows. The job of the desktop on my systems is to determine how much
space is available for open applications, and provide a convenient location
for a tool for opening new ones and switching among open ones. At least on
OS/2, objects on the desktop are automatically shadowed to WarpCentre, so
that they can be reached just as easily as objects formally installed in its
main app menu system.

Note too the above plural. I expect all my many Linux desktops to be
equivalent without heroic workarounds for missing features in "new &
improved" replacements for things that used to just work.

> That satisfies the
> requirements you have stated, provided you have the capacity to
> "remember" them.

If you read a bit further back, and think, you should see my requirement is
really the KDE3 status quo, not some kludge workaround for an absent
KDE4/beta-ware function. The KDE3 Kicker hiding button works well, and thus
needs neither improvement nor replacement.
-- 
"Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor
in vain."                       Psalm 127:1 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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