Hi,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/11/29, James Sparenberg <<a href="mailto:james@linuxrebel.org">james@linuxrebel.org</a>>:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>2. Why oh Why did someone take something as useful as xterm and<br>improve to the point of being almost unusable? I can't file bugs, as<br>it is apparently doing what it is supposed to. However, what it<br>
does really drives me nuts. Maybe it's just me.</blockquote><div><br>To be honest, I like the new X Terminal. It's good to have the buttons below the window, so that they don't take away precious space on the right side and force horizontal scrolling (which sucks in vi).
<br>The new terminal also feels more responsive than the old one. But this impression might also be caused by the fact that the N800 can run faster with OS 2008.<br> <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Why did they remove the useful tabs and replace it with multiple<br>windows? Given that there is no WM in the traditional sense you<br>can't resize and move between them easily. Tabs afforded the ability<br>to quickly manage multiple term windows (my record on the IT is 10
<br>tabs.) Windows bring this to a grinding halt.</blockquote><div><br>Well, there is a WM, matchbox, which just happens to be a fullscreen WM. But you're right, I miss the tabs as well. The advantage of this approach, however, is that there's no screen estate wasted for tabs.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why did they move the "button" bar to the bottom. Down there is<br>
steals valuable screen real-estate from you.</blockquote><div><br>IMHO, it's exactly the contrary. Actually the stolen screen estate is given back by not having tabs. ;)<br>All in all, the new terminal steals less screen estate than before.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why is it that they split the adjust background color and font color<br>into two different locations in the settings gui?
</blockquote><div><br>This is really a bad decision. I wanted to change colors yesterday, but gave up since it doesn't make sense to have black on black. Only today I read on internettablettalk that you can change the text color in the font settings. bad design.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why did they increase the steps to use the ctrl key in the button bar?<br>Before to do cntrl-c it was 2 clicks one on cntrl one on c ... now
<br>it's 5. cntrl - text box - c - ok - screen during this time the<br>keyboard closes 2 or 3 times. This can make vi a real PITA too.</blockquote><div><br>I fully agree!<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Perhaps I'm just using the IT differently from most, I don't view it<br>as sterility a muti-media toy. To me it's my #1 tool for doing my<br>job, so perhaps I'm a bit sensitive. Sorry if I sound ranty I don't
<br>mean to be but I am wondering why so may drastic changes were made to<br>a really good app.</blockquote><div><br><br>Well, your rants are on a hacker tool, something regular users most probably will never see and if they saw it, would immediately close again. :)
<br>I'm still wondering why Nokia now includes an X Terminal by default. Or is it just there in the beta releases?<br></div></div><br><br>Cheers,<br>Martin<br><br>