On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 01:41:29 +0200 Mattias Nilsen <[email protected]> said:
> I find short, unfulfilling texts about how customizable E19 is and how > terrific Terminology is, still I can't change a simple font color through > the options menu in Terminology and menu>settings>all>look>colors doesn't > cahnge anything and isn't exactly self explanatory. The "man terminology" > isn't helping much either. I'm looking for a real User's Manual that > teaches you the ins and outs of Terminology and Enlightenment and puts you > on your own two legs. What is the best thing good for if you can't find > info on using it? Is there any at all, or are we confined to always asking > others and merely coding in the dark? why should you need a guide? it should be obvious or relatively obvious from the gui. it sounds like you're confused. menu>settings>all>look>colors isn't in terminology at all. it's an enlightenment settings option - for enlightenment, not for terminology. if you want to change terminology colors - right click in terminology (like any right click popup/context menu anywhere, except you get a panel slide in not a menu - follow the labels). > This may sound a bit of a rant, but I've been looking for a manual for an > entire evening on the net, synaptic, terminology's man page and still > haven't found anything that lets me learn anything about it, so yes it's a > bit frustrating. Doesn't the devs themselves know what they have coded into > this? Also I've tried to find these FAQs and other documents I'm supposed > to read, but they aren't to be found upon registering or logging in and the > only links I can follow takes me back top square one at enlightenments > homepage. because you don't need a manual. all the settings are available right from the gui with some clicks. there isn't anything hidden or needing documentation for most users (unless you want to start making a theme of your own, or writing apps that make use of terminology extended escapes. and for those escapes the README for terminology documents them - it is shipped with terminology src. it also documents all keybinds/controls in terminology (beyond all the normal basic stuff your terminal apps do/need which isn't terminology's problem/code)). if you want to make a theme... edje_decc default.edj (shipped along with terminology in the theme dir on the system) and read the edc file (s). there are some comments and you can refer to the edcref for edje for what each thing means. etc. - i doubt you wanted to go making themes though. :) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
