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

2009/9/5 Ralf Mardorf &lt;ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net <mailto:ralf.mardorf@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.

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.