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Re: [News] Will Compiz/XGL Be the 'Wow Factor' That Coverts Users?

  • Subject: Re: [News] Will Compiz/XGL Be the 'Wow Factor' That Coverts Users?
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:17:48 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 21 August 2006 14:30 \__
> 
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> __/ [ Roy Culley ] on Saturday 19 August 2006 23:42 \__
>>> 
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>>>> <1575172.eN7Y9ry7y7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>> It kinda bugs me. *smile*
>>>> 
>>>> I enjoy your posts Roy but it bugs me when you go to the effort of
>>>> writing '*smile*' when a simple smiley will do. It makes you look a
>>>> little 'naive'. :-)
>>> 
>>> Really? I have always been doing that. I have always perceived the
>>> symbolic form as somewhat 'open to interpretation' or immature. Maybe I
>>> just associate it with youngsters in ICQ and MySpace ("omg!!!!!!!! tis is
>>> kewl!! ;-)"). Anyway, I spotted a mistake/typo in my last message. Should
>>> have been 'bootscreen' or 'bootsplash', not 'bootloader', even though grub
>>> and lilo are modifiable too (not easily). I once read an howto on ways of
>>> changing the image and further customising that screen (which a Linux user
>>> may only see a few times a year).
>> 
>> Smileys are fine, to be honest, and tend to confer a deeper sense of
>> meaning.
> 
> I think I'll stick with verbal ones. *smile*

It's your choice :-)

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor.

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