Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: MP3 players? Linux? I'm not sure, but I know there's hate
Date: 14:44 on 22 Apr 2005
On 4/22/05, Juerd <juerd@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx> wrote:
> Yoz Grahame skribis 2005-04-22 11:41 (+0100):
> > At least with Windows, when I start a new
> > app I've never seen before, I can still be fairly certain that I'll
> > know where to find basic things and how to interpret others.
>=20
> Same with KDE and Gnome applications.=20

How good are Gnome apps at picking up KDE settings?

> But if you use things like Firefox
> or OpenOffice.org, the consistency is gone. In any of Windows, Linux, OS
> X.

Not on Windows, at least, not from what I've seen - Firefox is pretty
consistent with the rest of Windows, OO.o slightly less so but still
fine. But that's mainly due to those projects putting more work into
Windows integration than on other OSes.

> > And that, say, with a media player, I can skip back and forth
> > between tracks using the special back/forward buttons on my keyboard.
>=20
> That's because there's some driver for your keyboard. Probably because
> your keyboard was made by Microsoft, or by Logitech, who pay Microsoft.
>=20
> I was surprised a while ago to see keyboard hotkeys work in KDE on
> someone's box. He said it worked without configuration.

That's because, AFAIK, all those special keys are doing is sending a
predefined key combo. No whizzy driverness needed. (But hateful when
you innocently apply the same key-combo elsewhere)

-- Yoz
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