Re: [EWMH] _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_AUXILIARY

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:57 +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-10-14, Mark Tiefenbruck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > While I agree with you from an engineering standpoint, it's just not
> > that simple. User expectations do, in fact, trump design simplicity.
> 
> What's the fucking big deal about some old Athena-based program 
> not having shadows under its menus? The typical "ooh! shiny" 
> luser who cares about fancy anti-usability effects won't even 
> know that such programs exist. But, I guess putting good design
> ahead of glitz is something that the desktop herd won't even
> consider in their quest for world domination. (And eradicating
> choice in the process by turning the OS into an idiot box that
> power users have hard time configuring to their needs anymore.
> fontconfig AA/XML-fascism being case in point. It's easier
> these days to switch to windows and enable unblurred fonts
> there than to configure FOSS crap to use unblurred fonts.)
> 

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