Ray Rashif wrote: > 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > E17 didn't change a lot since it was the default for the JAD > installing media some years ago, KDE did change a lot. Yes e17 has > got potential, that's why I'm using it again, but it's very > experimental. I don't like crashs when I try to chose fonts, I > like to chose fonts etc., something that isn't fine for e17. > > All those "show my desktops as a cube and add rain to my windows" > and make all windows transparent needs proprietary drivers, okay, > KWin is able to do transparency too, but it still isn't a "show my > desktops as a cube and add rain to my windows" DE. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Ralf > > > That's right - the word is experimental. If and when it gets out of > that phase, which judging from over 8 years (was the e in JAD e16 or > 17?) of development so far doesn't look near, it will be a worthy option.
Sorry for my late reply, I'm still short in time :S. It was called e17. > But saying all that, the irony is that I just installed and updated > myself again to the latest intel driver (was previously on a > downgraded version due to slow 3D performance), set up KMS, and my KDE > 4.3 is looking as good as it never did before. Simply amazing, and > surprising because I thought it'd take at least until 2010 to sort > that one out. > > The first thing to try would be getting messages across the windows, > and use double-clicks to select one. Since KWin already has the > drawing thing, it's possible to interactively render a cable a la > QJackCtl. So this is inter-application communication, which I'm not > sure is trivial. > > Then again, why go through so much work for the same function? (signal > routing; already accomodated for by QJackCtl) It'd just be another > step towards fanciness, not sure how effective it'd really be. Once > there are too many channels/ports, it'll get to a point where it'll be > cumbersome. -- Secret of Tux: http://images.wallaceandgromit.com/user_uploads/forum_thumbnails/5/75/355.jpg "Gromit bit me" says HMV dog: http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_03/GomitHMVPA_468x319.jpg _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
