Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> A true application of the 21st century has to be usable without a degree in
> computer science.  Otherwise it is only a geek toy, but not an application.

  Well, I don't think that unchecking an option in a graphical windowing
system needs a degree in computer science.
  Granted, it can be pretty difficult to find that this is what is causing
the problem, but I don't see any reason why a degree in computer science
would make it any easier in this case to find it.

  In fact, I think that in this particular case the problem is not that
emacs is not user-friendly, but the contrary: It's trying to be *too*
user-friendly, by letting itself to be affected by the KDE settings.
Perhaps they didn't test this feature well enough to realize that it
messes up the color settings in a way which is not desirable.

  (Actually I have seen some poorly-done freeware windows programs where
the problem is the opposite: They don't use the system's default colors
but define their own instead, *assuming* that the default colors are the
default ones, ie they gray shades etc. This results in the GUI of the
program being a mess of colors, somewhere being according to the system
settings and somewhere being the programs own colors, and it looks horrible.)

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

Post a reply to this message