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2008-04-14 , 21:15
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#35
Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
I have absolutely no idea how to make Powerlaunch work and I dare not install it. I've read the documentation pages and my only thought was: "WTF???!!!" And that's coming from someone who has (successfully) edited mce.ini...
OK... it's not really all that hard, as long as you know what you're in for going in...

We have been complaining about Application Mangler since day one and it's only got worse. It's now gone so far that I can no longer see package names.
That's fixed in SVN, IIRC; someone around said they built the SVN and it fixed it. And it doesn't die when one repo fails anymore... Major improvement, it's now actually usable.

As I don't have crapOS2008 installed, I haven't seen the xterm build for it. Does it do everything I can now do in my 2007 xterm?
The build from OS2007 is identical to OS2007 maemo-hackers xterm. The OS2008 one is functionally equivalent, IMHO. Differences:
Horizontal toolbar at bottom, instead of vertical. (Less screen space in portrait, so I'm happy.)
No tabs, since separate windows are accessible through the task switcher anyway. (Less screen space; happy again.)
Toolbar disabling works; not sure about the OS2007 version, though.

Otherwise, they're both the same, AFAIK. Character encoding is selectable, toolbars go to the window they belong with, closes window when shell exits (I think OS2007 had some glitches with this and multiple tabs, but it's been a long time...).