Opinions on the "enlightenment" window manager

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 13 Apr 2002, at 6:41, Collins boldly uttered: 
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:09:05 -0700 "Philip J. Koenig"
> <pjklist at ekahuna.com> wrote:

> > I run Opera and Netscape on my (admittedly not extremely
> > cutting-edge stock Caldera eWkstn 3.1) Linux/KDE box, and it puts
> > Netscape 4 to shame.  Been using it as standard browser under
> > Windoze and I'm personally *glad* to pay these guys to keep in the
> > market a legit alternative to those "free" browsers that are just
> > acting as funnels to the vendor's other software or content.
> > (Mozilla seems increasingly poisoned by the Netscape influence these
> > days too, it's kinda depressing to see the default 'skin' look
> > *identical* to how Netscape looked 4 years ago)
> > 
> 
> I'm not an eye candy sort of user.  Who cares about skins, anyway?  I
> really like the tabbed window support in the later Mozilla builds;
> Galeon has even better support for tabbed windows.


It's not that I want "eye candy", it's just that it's depressing to 
use a brand-new browser that hasn't improved the user interface over 
5-yr old ones.

On the "tabbed window" thing - Opera has been using "windows within 
windows" for years now.  I'd say browsers like Mozilla/Galeon et al 
are copying that feature from Opera. 

(Because so many people are stubborn about the traditional method of 
"opening a new browser" for every window other than another tab 
within the current one - Opera actually added that mode in Opera 6 
for people who couldn't adapt.  Opera 6 for Linux is in beta right 
now)

 
> > What little I played with Konqueror was a sorry experience indeed.
> > 
> 
> I'm a much less demanding browser than you, obviously.  I find that
> almost anything I want to browse works in kde3 konqueror.  Although it
> doesn't have tabbed windows, I get the same effect from the active
> window tabs in the kde3 panel.  If konqueror is active, clicking on
> the konqueror tab (or any other application, for that matter), brings
> up a dialog with choice tabs for any open windows for the application.


I haven't tried KDE 3 yet (remember I said I have a stock Caldera eW 
3.1 box) so I can't judge Konq 3.x  What I know from the 2.x 
variation is that it did an extremely poor job of rendering pages 
which worked in all the other major browsers fine.  It also was 
missing various common features as I recall.

 

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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist at ekahuna.com
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