Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

From: Anders Andersson <pipatron_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 04:17:50 +0200

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Kurt H Maier <karmaflux_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Transparent terminals unnecessarily increase computational power
> required to render simple text.  They make a fundamental application
> harder for a computer to run.  This makes the core program less
> portable by raising the hardware requirements.  The only gain is
> (arguably) aesthetic.  This, in short, is a completely braindead idea
> of no practical value, unless you tend to use a computer in the manner
> of someone who has been hit very hard in the head and has forgotten
> entirely what computers do and what terminals are

I'd also like to compare that kind of retardness to people that have
lights *inside* their computer, complete with a window on the side of
the tower. Totally useless, wasting power, pollutes the vision by
shining coloured light where there should be none, and just being a
sign of bad taste. Heck, there are cooling fans with LEDs in them.
Received on Fri May 06 2011 - 04:17:50 CEST

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