Hello: Kingsly John wrote, > +++ Shanker Balan [2002-08-29 19:27:35]: > > > Hello: > > > > Rahul Kumar wrote, > > > Do you know if its safe to overwrite the newer version ?? (i guess > > > i should do a rpm --oldpackage). > > > > Get down the the SRPM for Eterm and compile it yourself. I recommend > > you use Eterm with Enlightenment - great combo! > > The only thing good about Eterm is the transparency... and aterm does > it for you without all those dependency problems.(not to mention lower > memory/cpu usage!!)
Well.. the only thing I have to say in defense is that Eterm did it first! :-D In fact everything I see today wrt to eye-candy in GNOME or KDE, is a ripoff from E. IMHO, E has been the trend setter for all window managers, e17 am sure, will be the same. As for the dependency problem, it exists only in RedHat coz RedHat in its infinite wisdom decided to remove both e and Eterm after 7.1. On Debian and FreeBSD its just a "apt-get install eterm" and a "portinstall x11/eterm" away. When E was being developed, there were no libraries and toolkits which could provide the foundation for all the eye-candy which E hackers wanted to implement. So they ended up writing their own and check out the feature list (http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/features-0.16.html) which they currently boast off. This may look trivial today, but hey, this is what E had 3 years back. E had TrueType anti-aliased font support ages ago. I remember the other day when someone was explaining to me that GNOME (or was it KDE) pager can take miniature snapshots of the desktop and display it. Phooey, E was always doing it and whats more, the E pager will also *zoom* the snapshot if you move your mouse over it and then you can click on a window and drag it around the desktops from directly within the pager. IMHO, the E dependency web is justified - it was worth the effort then, its worth the effort now! > You also get menu's and stuff with aterm... I tried copying some of > the menu features from eterm into aterm... and found that mutt + > builtin macros are a lot more efficient way of doing almost anything > you'd do with a menu. Macros rule, but if you are a newbie and keep asking the list for things like "How do I mark messages as new?" and "How do I stop mails from getting marked as old?" when its clearly mentioned in the Mutt manual pages, *this* is where a GUI/menus help. Gvim does it best. While vi(m) may be exclusively for the power user, Gvim at least gives the luser a better chance of knowing *what* the editor provides. -- Shanu http://shankerbalan.com/ -- "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore." ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
