Pilkington factory

[hirez]

You know, this OS-Leper thing is much nicer than the previous one. It's about as good as KDE-3.x now.

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[spride.livejournal.com]

You're just trying to annoy, now. Behave.

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

*smirk*

What if KDE was running on... Red Hat?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It would pop up a wee box going 'You are using the wrong GUI. This machine will reboot and then run Gnome for your comfort and convenience. Share and Enjoy.'

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Ctrl-Alt-Cmd-8 to make it look as beautiful as KDE.

[redcountess]

*snicker*

[steer.livejournal.com]

You know, I've no idea what that is and if it's parody or actually genuinely part of the mac "intuitive user interface".

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Invert the colours on the screen, I think. So all the feldgrau-and-brushed-steel l33t merchants would get slightly lighter feldgrau and slightly lighter brushed-steel. Or vice-versa ;P

[steer.livejournal.com]

And in your case the light grey would become dark grey. :-)

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but there's not much of that. It's faffing with the black and white that bothers me ;P

all those xterm -bg feldgrau -fg brushedsteel -fn leetwanker; xsetroot -solid feldgrau" brigade are going to be see less difference ;P

(No - I don't know if they're real colours). ;)

[lproven.livejournal.com]

It's intended for those with visual defects. I think the idea is not that it's easier to read /per se/ or something, but that sometimes, inverting the colours makes low-contrast things suddenly high-contrast and so on.

Saying that, I don't know anyone partially sighted who uses a Mac.

Mind, my blind mate ednun has been bad-mouthing Macs for years. He has many online blind mates who say they suck. But at New Year's, at a party at twistedanimator's, I sat him down in front of her G5 tower, turned on VoiceOver (OS X's integral screen-reader) and got him to play. He came away quite considerably impressed. Especially given that the Mac has, as part of the OS, something he has to pay £600 or something to a 3rd party to do on Windows.

[steer.livejournal.com]

It was just the bizarreness of what looks like a 4 key combo that got me. I don't usually see that outside of arcade games about fighting.

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I always take things too seriously.

I suppose it's one you're not going to hit by accident and pretty damned unlikely to be claimed by some app!

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

GUI: Just say 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!".

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Just say 'Finally, working multiple desktop support. Now I may open more xterms.'