On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 12:05:12PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote: > On Sunday 31 August 2003 08:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why try and go in the same direction? Why the comparison? > > > > Because I found the features I mentioned as useful (contrary to > > transparent menus, > > for instance, which I don't quite understand what's the big glick about > > them). > > They are really really neat :-) > OTOH - I'd dump them in a second for real window transparency which is a > useful tool, especially for "console on X" people - I usually have several > consoles open at the same time, and I'd really like to be able to layer them > in such a way that I can see the consoles with the logs running while working > on other consoles and still use most of the screen for both.
That may be one case. But remember that a reading two xterms one on-top of another is practically impossible. eterm is an eye-candy, but a step backwards in terms of usability, IMHO. > I currently use > Konsole's multi-terminal ability, and its not good enough for me - I still > need to shuffle back and forth. "terminal-in-a-tab" of konsole is a bad approach: it's the approach of those who lack screen real-estate. They sacrifasie ease of navigation. And konsole is lacking as an implementation of "tabbed-terminal". E.g: you can't keep several konsoles and move terminals between them. Thus you can't realy use multiple konsoles to logically-group tasks. BTW: take a look at mlterm. This is a redesign of xterm that keeps almost all of the good features of xterm, and adds quite a few others. One bad feature is the memory bloat, though. But it is the only terminal that does bidi right. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
