xfce version 3 vs. 4 : missing features?

[Biju Chacko]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:24:10 -0400, hugh d fegely wrote:

> Gotta go with David here. "Standards" -- isn't that what the "Microsoft"
> desktop is, basically -- a standard? One that I (and I'm sure MANY like me)
> came to use Linux for.. their "standard" was too limiting, and we WANTED the
> configurability.
> 
> If I want all my Icons to be Smiley Faces instead of whatever "canned" default
> is given to me by the program/desktop/operating system, then I should be able
> to do it..
> 
> Since the requests from before seem to have fallen to the wayside due to
> "standards compliance" regarding the configurability of icons in the icon box,
> and there are still people who miss at least some of the old XFce3
> functionality with the minimized icons on the desktop, then once again I have
> to ask "why not include a little more USER REQUESTED functionality" to our
> desktop environment?
> 
> Standards? Bah... standards are rules, and they're meant to be broken ;)

Actually the main importance of standards is interoperability. Because of these
standards, somebody can write a third-party program to do all the funky stuff
you'd like *without* having to know all about the internals of XFce. Something
like Devils Pie (google for it) for example. 

-- b


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