Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net
> <mailto:ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>>
>
>
> 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.
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