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47 lines
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Cons:
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GColorChooser became better
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Charmap became better (but by far not perfect)
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utf-8 support was not quite there yet
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Cannot drag and drop a window using the miniature in the pager
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su was a pain (quoting and always typing the password), sudo is better
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the configuration menus were sometims a bit disorganised, and spread across several "control centers" (Mandrake's, KDE's, ...)
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visual bell (I'm sure I saw a config option to disable it, but I cannot find it again!)
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font subpixel hinting on my screen is bad (probably just a configuration option that I didn't find yet)
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kmail didn't support IMAP
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Pros:
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kioslaves allowed to view man pages and info pages with hyperlinks and decent formatting
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lots of configuration menus
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lots of documentation, well translated, with howtos, etc. and it is put forward
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ability to change the window manager / desktop environment on the fly, at least for some of them.
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nice background pictures in configuration dialogs (e.g. KDE control center, Mozilla Messenger's configuration...)
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easy customization of menus, of the task bar, these things have been gradually discarded in "modern" desktop environments.
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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.
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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.
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Software which disappeared:
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arts-builder (nice & fun synthesizer)
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khexedit
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xtraceroute, doesn't exist anymore
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What is compatible:
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X display (new applications are mostly compatible with old XFree86, not the other way round: old applications hang when connecting to new X server)
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Sound (with osspd)
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What is *not* compatible:
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CPU usage (it seems the API for that in /proc changed a bit)
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arts-builder (possibly because it checks for its CPU usage)
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Staroffice:
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+ full-featured
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+ well engineered:
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e.g. connectors between objects
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-> Some functions are already present in menus, have an icon, but are greyed out.
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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
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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),
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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"
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+ the guidelines when creating a new presentation. Cute & nice.
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- right-click -> personalize on menus is slightly more confusing than in Office 97
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- templates in impress: there's a preview when creating a new presentation, but not when changing the template for a single slide
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- a few lists for selecting things (font, ...) are a bit too small to be practical, and their containing window cannot be resized. |