Re: helping the user is not an error

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From: H.Merijn Brand
Subject: Re: helping the user is not an error
Date: 20:30 on 23 May 2006
On Tue, 23 May 2006 20:39:43 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> wrote:

> * jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx <jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-05-23 19:10]:
> > But if we're going to wander into "inconsistent widgets are
> > terrible" territory (which they are), I'm going to have to
> > mention the joy of Opera for Linux.
> 
> I abandoned Opera when they went from pure-Qt in 5.x to a skinned
> interface in 6.x. I cannot fathom, oh no I can't, why it suddenly
> felt almost as sluggish as Mozilla.

ATM Qt is the biggest problem for me :/

> Now, I keep Opera around to test any web layout stuff I do.
> Purely for those rare occasions, I went looking for a theme that
> would irritate me at least a little bit less. Well guess what,
> there is NOT A SINGLE FREAKIN' THEME for Opera that DOES NOT BLOW
> CHUNKS. It's all k3wl eyec4ndy cow manure. Every. Single. One of
> them. Craptacular beyond belief.

How much skin do you need? Or better how bare can you strip it?
This is my Opera9 on OpenSUSE 10.0 with KDE 3.5.2 with HTTP::Proxy
as dynamic page changer:

	http://www.xs4all.nl/~hmbrand/opera9.jpg


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