From a8e0a8d3ba88a5c95b1e99545de39e83fb0474b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Georges=20Dup=C3=A9ron?= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 23:50:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More elements of comparison --- comparison | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/comparison b/comparison index 6f3ba72..851f1db 100644 --- a/comparison +++ b/comparison @@ -5,8 +5,43 @@ utf-8 support was not quite there yet Cannot drag and drop a window using the miniature in the pager su was a pain (quoting and always typing the password), sudo is better the configuration menus were sometims a bit disorganised, and spread across several "control centers" (Mandrake's, KDE's, ...) +visual bell (I'm sure I saw a config option to disable it, but I cannot find it again!) +font subpixel hinting on my screen is bad (probably just a configuration option that I didn't find yet) +kmail didn't support IMAP Pros: kioslaves allowed to view man pages and info pages with hyperlinks and decent formatting +lots of configuration menus +lots of documentation, well translated, with howtos, etc. and it is put forward +ability to change the window manager / desktop environment on the fly, at least for some of them. +nice background pictures in configuration dialogs (e.g. KDE control center, Mozilla Messenger's configuration...) +easy customization of menus, of the task bar, these things have been gradually discarded in "modern" desktop environments. +glade (GUI editor) seemed better at the time (more widgets, more intuitive flow as it was a simple click to create an element inside a container, now you sometimes have to go through some right-click maze for some containers e.g. toolbars) + there seemed to be some extensive support for some database engine, which seems to have disappeared. +browsers actually already supported CSS. My website (which uses a very simple CSS stylesheet, but wasn't designed (to my shame) with the goal of backward-compatibility) looks great on Mozilla, Konqueror and Galeon. The fonts could be antialiased for it to look nicer, and that's it. + +Software which disappeared: arts-builder (nice & fun synthesizer) -lots of configuration menus \ No newline at end of file +khexedit +xtraceroute, doesn't exist anymore + +What is compatible: +X display (new applications are mostly compatible with old XFree86, not the other way round: old applications hang when connecting to new X server) +Sound (with osspd) + +What is *not* compatible: +CPU usage (it seems the API for that in /proc changed a bit) +arts-builder (possibly because it checks for its CPU usage) + + +Staroffice: ++ full-featured ++ well engineered: + e.g. connectors between objects + -> Some functions are already present in menus, have an icon, but are greyed out. + The feature is actually implemented and can be done by using another menu entry with default settings (e.g. the default connector) then changing it with right-click properties + This means that the product achitecture was thought in advance and dispatched to several people/tasks (icon creators, create the menu entries, implement the functionality, connect the menu entry to said functionality), + and only the last one didn't get implmented in time to make it into the release. This is in contrast with the approach of implementing things "on the fly" ++ the guidelines when creating a new presentation. Cute & nice. +- right-click -> personalize on menus is slightly more confusing than in Office 97 +- templates in impress: there's a preview when creating a new presentation, but not when changing the template for a single slide +- a few lists for selecting things (font, ...) are a bit too small to be practical, and their containing window cannot be resized. \ No newline at end of file