Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus vs. xpenguins

[Ben Ford <ben kalifornia com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Eric Kidd <eric kidd pobox com> writes:
>
> > Problems include:
>
> There's obviously a tradeoff. FWIW we'd decided to take the Nautilus
> approach for gnome-fm before it ever became Nautilus - I don't
> remember all the reasons unfortunately. Maybe someone else does.
>
> All the problems you mention can be worked around eventually, apps
> just have to be desktop-aware. They can be aware of the "desktop
> manager" in a gnome/kde-independent way using the WM spec.

Worked around?  Why fix it if it ain't broke?  If you'd read the link I 
posted the other day, you'd see that all the things that you are aiming 
for are easily possible WITHOUT borking up the root window!

Anti-aliased text and even TRANPARENCY are available with X4.0.3 and 
Xrender.  (And don't complain that X4 is too new.  Everything else that 
Nautilus uses is cutting edge and just about every major distro now 
offers the option of X4.)

-b

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