On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:24, Kevin Worthington wrote: > > What sort of things do you like better/worse with KDE compared to GNOME, > > and vise versa? I haven't used KDE since version 1.1.2, so I don't > > really know how KDE compares anymore. It looks nice. :-) > > In KDE the big reason I liked it over GNOME (not big in reality), was > the layout of the minimize, maximize, close buttons. In GNOME I didn't > like the placement of the close button in the top left. Now with > Metacity, this is no longer the case. I guess after being exposed to > Windows 3.11, 95, 98 and upwards, I got used to it all being in the > top right. I've been programmed to Microsoft to like it that way > unfortunately... ;-) Actually, I consider it pretty much stupid, braindead and retarded to keep such a destructive button (close) in a series of small buttons displayed all together and on the same side of the window. In my wm (sawfish), I'm running a theme called absolute-darkness. The window layout is: .[min][max][menu][ Title ][close]_________________. | | It could/should be improved to (so close is always where you expect): .[min][max][menu][ Title ][close]. | | Plus, max has some pretty quircks: (un)maximize vertically on middle mouse button click (un)maximize horizontally on right mouse button click This is a lot more sane than the MS Windows style. Totally different from what the common guy is used to? Absolutely. More usable? Yes. Safer? Yes. Why mimic what's bad? Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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