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Re: [opensuse] Reply to G T Smith
  • From: John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:09:39 -0700
  • Message-id: <4A9B5B13.9050407@xxxxxxxxx>
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 31 August 2009 06:26:26 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
We don't work in widgets. We use applications. There are no usefull
widgets that do anything butter than applications.
Ever think that a widget just might be another word for a special kind of
application :^)

It's a lot more generic than that. To say that you don't work in widget is
tantamount to saying that you work in text mode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_widget

It's a term that's been with us since forever and applies to everything you
see in a GUI environment on any platform

Anders

So its defuse the issue with generalities is it Anders?

Activities just are not stable. Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid
them and still have different wallpapers so you know where you are at
a glance.
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