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Darren New wrote:
> (I'm mildly annoyed that neither KDE nor GNOME default to opening the menu
> when you hit the Windows key. It would seem that adding that functionality
> would make it friendlier to Windows users, given that I don't think the
> Windows key is used for anything at all in either of those desktops.)
Apparently KDE used to. But then the possible Win + something keyboard
shortcuts caused conflicts with the "Win key alone opens menu", so they
removed it.
No idea why. Windows manages to do both just fine.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren New [mailto:dne### [at] san rrcom]
> Except you can turn that off at the window manager level, and it works
> almost 100% of the time. With Vista, it works mainly when you didn't
> want
> it to work in the first place, somehow.
Yeah, like apps launched from keyboard shortcuts. They launch unfocused
behind the current window, meaning I can't just start using them like I
used to in XP :(
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
What's the difference between a drug dealer and a whore?
A whore can wash her crack and sell it again.
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Five: Blocking IO.
Why the he** should everything on my computer freeze up when a scratch is
encountered on a CD?
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
I'd like to live in Theory. Everything works there.
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Chambers wrote:
> Yeah, like apps launched from keyboard shortcuts.
Yeah, or from (say) the calculator button. Or based on a timer, it seems.
Oh, and another flaming annoyance: they now make it difficult to say "I want
to *view* the picture with the normal preview program, but I want to *edit*
the picture with (say) photoshop". Apparently, putting this in some advanced
setting so you don't have to dick with the registry was too difficult.
Now that I know how to run VMs, maybe I'll see if Windows 7 is any good
before I buy it. :)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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Chambers wrote:
> Five: Blocking IO.
>
> Why the he** should everything on my computer freeze up when a scratch is
> encountered on a CD?
I think it's only explorer that locks up. Other programs keep running, as
long as they're not accessing it. Local disks always cause those sorts of
lock-ups, because there's no good way to say "open it, but don't wait for it
to open." It has been a problem in most OSes, including UNIX from at least
V7 on (they used to distinguish "fast open" from "slow open" devices), and
including locking up (under WIndows at least) while waiting for a disk to
spin up from power save, too, for example. I thought Vista was a bit better
at this, in that you can now specifically cancel out o something like that
and get control back. You've canceled of course, but Vista lets programs
abort I/O that they didn't used to be able to abort. (That was one of the
explicit improvements. Maybe it only applies to network opens, tho?)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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