On Sunday 26 December 2010 08:11 AM, Tim wrote:
Transparency's all very well for shuffling windows about, trying
to find
the one you want behind the currently front-most one. But it's
appalling to try and use a terminal or application when you're seeing
what's behind it through what you're actually trying to look at.
Actually I set my terminals to an opacity of 90-95% just so that I can
do that, but only on laptops where I don't have enough screen
space. Often it so happens I want to look at some webpage/email/source
code (or an occasional watch a video while work ;)) as I type at the
terminal. On a sub 14" laptop, there is no better way to do it.
...
I find Macs like those Lego bricks with six bumps on top (a grid of 3
by
2). They can *only* be used in certain ways. You're stuffed if you
want to do something different.
Very well put, all around me in the academic community I find people
toting their Macs and recommending Macs to me and they say "its so easy
to use". But then I learn on a Mac you can't do this or that, or some
usual way of doing things on linux have to be done in some not so
straightforward way. For me the worst are the keystroke -> character
mapping, specially the control keys (I am an Emacs user).
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Suvayu
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