"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.2479.1299981498.4748.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >I wish all apps followed a defined standard and allowed us to set all > applications to use dark backgrounds at once. > > On Linux you can't even set the cursor blinking to be the same for all > apps. Either it's a GTK/KDE/XF/Whatever-specific setting, or you have > to hunt down some configuration file
Hear hear! And I thought Linux/Unix was supposed to be the world of standards. Even on standards-inept Wndows, we have standardization for that sort of thing. Or at least we used to, until we got invaded by non-native toolkits and apps with non-optional skins. (...grumble, grumble...) > Sometimes it ends up being in xml > format, so you have to read the manual on how to configure an app.., > and this was for a hex editor. Geeeez. > A hex editor with XML configuration...That's just deliciously ironic. > Someone wrote a freakin manual on how to set cursor blinking for each > app they could think off: > http://www.jurta.org/en/prog/noblink > Wow. I thought it was just me who found that blinking distracting. I've never actually thought to turn it off though. Maybe I should try that. > Ridiculous. And then Windows is a pita. Right! Commence thread derailment. > :-P Why stop at just one derailment? ( :) ) I'm gonna sabatage the other track, too: >From that link: "To stop the cursor from blinking in Micro$oft Windows applications:" I certainly can't object to the idea of MS being evil (what large corporation isn't?), but the whole "M$"/"Micro$oft" thing is just downright juvenille. Not to mention it smacks of l33t-speak. What is this, the 90's? ("Yes, we know you don't like MS. Nobody does. Now quit being deliberately dumb.") It's the internet meme equivalent of pants "sagging" - the obnoxious fad that just won't die.