gdkxWTF???

Post #13,554 by jb4 10/16/01 9:30:35 AM Reply	gdkxWTF??? Wade, here's the next frontier for Linux (and any other UNIX wannabe): Drop the bullshit TLAs (4LAs, 5LAs, etc.) and speak fucking English (or some other recognizable tongue). gdkxft??? nogsh??? What the fuck is that unintelligble gibberish? Linux will never take over the desktop until its users can pronounce its vocabulary. And all this random place-a-buncha-letters-in-a-blender-and-see-what-comes-out bullshit that makes the geekazoids feel oh-SO-cool about themselves is just so much pud-pulling. Complain about DCL's verbosity all you want, but anybody could look at a DCL script and tell what it did even if it was/in spite of whether it was written by a former UNIX geek! jb4 (Resistance is not futile...)
Post #13,558 by admin 10/16/01 9:57:22 AM Reply	nogsh: stands for "nog that shit"; it's an emote from IWETHEY Interactive. Nog, incidentally, is a typoed version of "nod" that took on a life of its own. So, nogsh is slang for "yes, I agree totally". :-) Can't help you on the other one. :-) Regards, -scott anderson
Post #13,559 by pwhysall 10/16/01 10:10:21 AM 10/16/01 10:11:40 AM Reply	Re: gdkxWTF??? DCL is never intelligible, here's a fragment : $! IF f$getdvi(F$trnlnm("MT_TK70"),"EXISTS") .EQS. "TRUE" $! THEN $! IF first_drive .EQS. f$getdvi(F$trnlnm("MT_TK70"),"FULLDEVNAM") $! THEN $! init 'first_drive' 'tape_id'-01 $! fnd_drv=1 $! mount/noassist/foreign 'first_drive' $! ENDIF $! ENDIF Yes, it's nicely indented. Yes, I do know what it does. Can you tell that this particular code fragment is actually commented out? (This is from our site backup script, btw) gdkxft is a small library that hooks up GDK to the Xft extension of XFree86. All you need to know is that you get luvly antialiased fonts. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] Edited by pwhysall Oct. 16, 2001, 10:11:40 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #13,561 by pwhysall 10/16/01 10:13:39 AM Reply	nogsh Is the "Agreement" shell, found on Snobbian 2.2 systems especially. Of particular note is the fact that nothing you can do is actually wrong. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #13,697 by static 10/16/01 10:27:06 PM Reply	Understanding the technology. People who are going to insist Linux behaves largely the same way as Windows are going to have the most trouble. That includes the terminology of both. Now, that said, I don't think you're in that category, but I do see you have a genuine problem. I can't see font-management and all that goes along with it on Linux approaching the way Windows works. Part of that is the multi-user, network-oriented approach to it all that Windows simply does not do well, but part of that is it is simply The Linux/Unix Way to expose a lot of the underlying modules. So, X11 has a font server, Gnome and KDE have font-smoothing modules, and GhostScript also has it's own font renderer are going to remain public knowledge for quite a while. I don't think all that many people will have problems with knowing this. Of course, they shouldn't need to know quite all of this. At the very most, none of this need be visible unless they want to add a font. Then a font-installer should handle the rest of it. All other detailed knowledge should be optional. That means that if you don't need or want to know that Gnome uses a particularly library by a particular name to enable font-smoothing, then yes, those that are comfortable with module names need to get more in the habit of saying "Yes, Gnome can do anti-aliasing. If you're curious, the module is called gdkxft" or something like that. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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