> Frederik Eaton wrote: > > The word "torture", indeed, conjures up an image of something more > > painful than annoying. That's why I prepended the words "Chinese > > water". According to Wikipedia, Chinese water torture "was supposed to > > drive its victim insane with the stress of water dripping on a part of > > the forehead for a very long time". It doesn't sound OMG to me. For > > It is OMG. Because it IS torture. And comparing that with a blinking cursor > is insane.
The comparison was between water dripping on forehead, and cursor blinking in eyes, as I imagine you understood. If you want to suggest a better way of phrasing it, feel free to do so, but I don't see what the big deal is. I don't believe any reasonable reader thinks that the source I am quoting is arguing that people are being forced to use these applications as a form of punishment, which is how you seem to be interpreting it. The comparison was to the sensation, not the context in which the sensation is administered. > > some of those who suffer from autism or epilepsy or ADHD, and can't > > "just ignore" the blinking, it must be an apt comparison. I am well > > aware that most people aren't bothered by it. > > Indeed, but... The problem is that you can't expect any app handling > this itself. This would be insane. > > > > Hmm. Discussion with upstream says me that OOo should also honour the > > > settings you did in Gnome already. Did you install openoffice.org-gtk? > > > Without it you don't have GTkified UI and no GTK integration. > > > > Oh, thanks for letting me know. But ... I've tried installing > > openoffice.org-gtk-gnome, openoffice.org-gnome, and > > openoffice.org-gtk, and the problem persists. It doesn't look like > > openoffice.org is using gtk yet though. The menubar is shaded and the > > menus only have a black outline on the bottom and right sides. Do I > > need to restart something? > > That makes me think that OOo didn't detect on startup that you are under > GNOME. You *are* under GNOME (or Xfce which somehow is detected as GNOME), > right? Nope, just gnome-settings-daemon so I can use gtk apps. > Otherwise, you can try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="gnome" before starting > OOo. (or "kde" for KDE, where the same should work, according to > upstream) Thanks, that works! Frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
