Why Yellowdog?

[Andrew Mason]

Aqua is simply a toolkit (?theme applied to a tool kit even?) which is what 
OSX uses. 

GTK is the toolkit that Gnome and XFCE4 use and QT(from trolltech) is the 
Toolkit that KDE uses. You can pretty much make either of these toolkits look 
like Aqua and. The difference is the amount of control and the options that 
are built into your DE that make the difference. For example in KDE i can 
make it LOOK like and behave exactly the same as a windows system, or an OSX 
system (not that I would do this though =) ) but the control i have over the 
window system is still the same. i.e I can have a windows selected and raised 
as soon as I put the mouse over it, or I can position the location of the 
close buttons, I can turn off all animations or turn on only selected 
animations and options etc... This is where Aqua/OSX annoys me, you simply 
can't do that with apples implementation. So although they may have an OpenGL 
windowing system, its still not as fast/responsive as my YDL install simply 
coz I'm waiting milliseconds after i do anything for all the f*ing animations 
to finish.

With Gnome, XFCE, KDE (other WM's as well) you have complete control over 
almost everything. Unless Havoc Pennington decides to remove yet another 
feature from Metacity of course ;)


On Thursday 20 January 2005 9:13 pm, Don wrote:
> >>I don't like aqua, I feel it gets in my way and
> >>i'd much rather use KDE, Gnome or XFCE over aqua.
>
> FWIW, I've found Gnome to look too 'PCish' for my taste so far,
> and I'd rather find a more Macish feel with the window control
> boxes 'in their correct places' instead.  (Am I missing options
> somewhere to reset things?)
>
> As to Aqua, I have not yet tried or even looked for it.
>
> Andrew, are you saying / suggesting / meaning that Aqua is
> more 'Macish' in its presentation?  Is it available somewhere
> for YDL 3?
>
> Don
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