From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 13:02:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D44106568B for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:02:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D8888FC14 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 41930 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2009 12:35:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=ciS40j3XFSma7ZGwSTCe9mD9r+wJOKL7fv8PQ5VqsPdxXrQXuNX6yGQg2/AO1izW0FC3n1cvwqSIaddQLLTwC1WVvwQdiKG9/omVaI7eH8xNBkpkjVCor6AkzzeaGWpafb0IpvdnVxMOwnCi6vTNJjMdS6bXJMfQHVYIE59Mbkw= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.localnet) (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 2009 12:35:47 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: EP._MSsVM1njJv37r28K_yz_7TslwJNWhejhwOm81OUO3DvJuEo3brnUTpQxPlA.EQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:35:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-14-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <200908261250.00903.motoom@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200908261250.00903.motoom@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200908260835.45564.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: KDE3 --> KDE4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:02:29 -0000 On August 26, 2009 06:50:00 am Michiel Overtoom wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009 16:12:03 Andrew Gould wrote: > > Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in > > resource consumption? > > As I see it, KDE4 fell in the Vista trap. I tried KDE4 and was showered > with eye candy effects, some of which couldn't even be disabled. Also, > quite a few features I used in KDE3 were missing from KDE4. > > I never understood the need for transparent windows. If you're working in > a window you want to concentrate on its contents, not on stuff that's > happening beneath it. It breaks the flow. I think it's indicative of the > ritalin-generation of teens who can't concentrate for two minutes and need > to constantly tweet about nonsense. Geez, I'm getting old ;-) > > In my time, we didn't have color screens. We had machine code on the bare > metal, and a USER PORT to hook up your hardware. > > Greetings, The need for semi-transparent windows is a big question in my mind too. I suspect it has been implemented because it is possible, and initially looks 'cool'. But it seems to be a distraction from actually doing useful work. Much better to turn it off, IMHO. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca