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"X Window software" hasn't really changed very much in the last couple decades. I use distinct Control, Shift, Meta/Alt, and Hyper keys. The blame lies with "
by philsnow 13y ago
"X Window software" hasn't really changed very much in the last couple decades. I use distinct Control, Shift, Meta/Alt, and Hyper keys.
The blame lies with "desktop environments", not X.
X has plenty of its own problems without getting Gnome's problems heaped on top.
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> It's only the this-is-finally-the-year-of-Linux-on-the-desktop crowd slavishly imitating Microsoft's mistakes that screwed it up.
Most of the recent garbage they've cargo-culted from Apple (and common software for OS X), not Microsoft. Witness the really shitty reimplementation of Growl, the really shitty (and shamefully unmandated) window menu bar -> system menu bar consolidation.
- kps 13y agoOh, I agree with you — I perhaps should have written something like “*nix workstation software” rather than “X Window software”. I do use a separate Meta as well, and try to avoid programs that can't be configured to use it (GNOME-aligned ones being the most common). And hey, as far as ‘really shitty reimplementations of Growl’ go, even Apple has one now.
- philsnow 13y agoAh, with that edit I agree, with the caveat that I was never exposed very much to ye olde-school Xe applicationse.