Re: Windows XP-style login -- NO! Bad! Bad code monkey!

[Chris Chabot <chabotc xs4all nl>]

Damn, now we even moved to moking and insulting contributing users. I 
think daniel said it best with
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*^From:  *bpoag comcast net
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I have to say your deep desire to cause contraversy and talk your own 
ideas up, compasating for who knows what, would probably be best treated 
by a psychologists. (Not ment as a insult, but as actual advice).

I would not vote against applying that procmail rule to the gnome 
mailing lists. I see no reason why we should share our time and 
resources to someone who sling around insults to anyone on this list 
with a constructive opinion.

   -- Chris

Bowie J. Poag wrote:

> So, let me get this straight... You people use Linux because Microsoft is
> evil and Windows sucks...but yet, you want to imitate Microsoft's desktop
> design.  You, in effect, want bring to Linux the exact same shit you claim
> to hate.
>
> Read the last two lines over again before continuing. Let it sink in.
>
> Jesus tapdancing Christ! I swear, some of you people must be so goddamn
> stupid that you'de probably forget to breathe if Barney didn't sing you a
> song about it.   The willingness of certain people on this mailing list to
> rush headlong into building second rate knock-offs of Windows' glitter
> simply and utterly astounds me.  The lack of genuinely creative thought here
> is staggering. The majority of the people on this list are sheep. Rather
> than sit and think about how to solve the goddamn problem for themselves,
> they magically assume that everything Microsoft has built is inherentlly a
> good design, and one that should be followed verbatim...its quite frankly,
> sickening. You are bright people.  But you're wasting your time running a
> race that you're guaranteed to finish in no better than 2nd place.
>
> Its like youre trying to make something _shittier_ than a turd! And
> struggling at it!
>
> For God's sake, have ANY of you stopped and asked yourself _if_ something is
> a good design before emulating it?
>
> Anyone at all? If so, where the hell is this discussion taking place?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bowie
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>
> To: <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 6:47 PM
> Subject: Windows XP-style login
>
>
>  
>
> > On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 11:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > to "screen" with a terminal.
> > >
> > > 2. "Share my desktop" with easy GUI, means we need to be able to add
> > >    VNC to any X server without restarting the X server.
> > >      
> > Wow, is that possible?  From your description it seems so; that would be
> > really cool!
> >
> > I think that if we had this feature, it wouldn't be hard to add another
> > feature I'd really like to see; a Windows XP style login.  I was really
> > impressed when I used XP for the first time a while ago.  When the
> > screensaver kicks in, you can log in not only as the current user, but
> > as any other user as well.  So basically the screensaver just becomes a
> > login prompt.  I find that very convenient, more than the current "New
> > login" GDM thing (although that is nice).
> >
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