Kurt H Maier dixit (2009-10-09, 00:59): > > All you people who are against transparency are like all those BSD > > folk on Freenode who troll you for wanting a colorized ls output.
I don't see how a transparent (less readable) text area is relevant to a colorized syntax-highlighted code or logfile (more readable). > > Unbelievable. Isn't it? I still stand by the transparent newspaper analogy. It is truly ubelievable newspapers aren't printed on translucent foil yet. NZ and Australian banks are a step closer to world happiness -- they started printing their banknotes on plastic, so that you can see bits of what's underneath when you lay them on a counter. > I agree. How else do they expect me to see my half-naked anime ninja > cat-girl wallpaper? I mean I know I can mousewheel the opacity down > if I hover on the titlebar, but sometimes that's just too much work! > Plus I can't afford the context-switching; that just slows down my dev > work on my php-powered social networking project for school. Aside > from that, I need to get *quick* access to my 800x600-pixel conky > status display -- I like to manually type 'sync' just to watch the i/o > number spike for a second. Anyway it's late and my mom just IMed me to > go to bed, so I'll just fire this e-mail off and get psyched about the > upcoming Windows 2000 release. It's a good thing I'm a teenager in > the late nineties, because otherwise I sure would feel dumb for caring > so much about wasteful stupid garbage like terminal transparency! So true. Makes me *almost have to* think you've been through it all yourself. :) Best, PS. Excuse two responses in a single post. To a greener future! -- [a]
