Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Desktop Environments in the World of Pro Audio
From: Fred Gleason (fredg_AT_wava.com)
Date: Wed Jul 03 2002 - 22:57:40 EEST
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 14:22, Paul Davis wrote:
> You all just knew I'd be on this like a fly on cow dung, right? :)))
:)
> Theme Support: comes from the toolkit, not the DE.
Interesting. I can't speak for GNOME (where my experience is nil), but in
Qt/KDE, the themeing is very much in the DE, not in Qt. I have heard some
faint rumblings that that might be changing in Qt 4, but thus far Trolltech
hasn't said much about it.
> Help Systems: I've said here, and others have agree with me, that
> these are invariably either useless or close to useless.
> The best help system seems to come from getting a decent
> HTML browser to view a well-written HTML documentation
> package. Its true that GNOME and KDE come with simple
> and nicely encapsulated ways to do this that work along
> with the user's preferred browser.
I agree they're useless as many developers choose to (mostly not) implement
them. Properly used, they can be quite valuable.
> Congratulations,
> you've just given me *one* reason to use a desktop
> environment :)
Now I know my day hasn't been wasted! :)
> I think the list of riches will need to be a bit deeper than this to
> convince me to switch. The "polish" we've spoken about doesn't come
> the features that KDE and GNOME provide, IMHO.
Its a tradeoff, like anything in engineering. Ultimately each developer
decides.
> More interesting features would involve things like cut-n-paste
> between apps of audio+MIDI data. I haven't seen any work in KDE or
> GNOME to support this, though for all I know, it might be possible
> already.
I know KDE has native support for MIDI data. How useful or complete it is
though, I have no idea.
Cheers!
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