[LAD] [LAU] [ANN] LADI Session Handler - Preview 1

[Ralf Mardorf]

Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net 
> <mailto:ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>>
>
>
>     E17 didn't change a lot since it was the default for the JAD
>     installing media some years ago, KDE did change a lot. Yes e17 has
>     got potential, that's why I'm using it again, but it's very
>     experimental.  I don't like crashs when I try to chose fonts, I
>     like to chose fonts etc., something that isn't fine for e17.
>
>     All those "show my desktops as a cube and add rain to my windows"
>     and make all windows transparent needs proprietary drivers, okay,
>     KWin is able to do transparency too, but it still isn't a "show my
>     desktops as a cube and add rain to my windows" DE.
>
>     Just my 2 cents.
>
>     Ralf
>
>
> That's right - the word is experimental. If and when it gets out of 
> that phase, which judging from over 8 years (was the e in JAD e16 or 
> 17?) of development so far doesn't look near, it will be a worthy option.

Sorry for my late reply, I'm still short in time :S. It was called e17.

> But saying all that, the irony is that I just installed and updated 
> myself again to the latest intel driver (was previously on a 
> downgraded version due to slow 3D performance), set up KMS, and my KDE 
> 4.3 is looking as good as it never did before. Simply amazing, and 
> surprising because I thought it'd take at least until 2010 to sort 
> that one out.
>
> The first thing to try would be getting messages across the windows, 
> and use double-clicks to select one. Since KWin already has the 
> drawing thing, it's possible to interactively render a cable a la 
> QJackCtl. So this is inter-application communication, which I'm not 
> sure is trivial.
>
> Then again, why go through so much work for the same function? (signal 
> routing; already accomodated for by QJackCtl) It'd just be another 
> step towards fanciness, not sure how effective it'd really be. Once 
> there are too many channels/ports, it'll get to a point where it'll be 
> cumbersome.

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