Hi,

anyone can agree that this is a little bit more clearer?

<snip>

Description: Display program shortcuts as icons on desktop
 With idesk you can define shortcut's for several programs
 and display these icons with a short description on the
 desktop of any window manager.
 .
 It can use png images as icon source (including transparent
 support) and support antialised fonts to print the description.

</snip>

Thanks for you help...


----- Forwarded message from Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----

The current description doesn't fullfill it's purpose.

> idesk plops icons down on your root window (desktop).

`Plops'? What's that?
And wearing my dummy desktop user hat, WTF is a root window?

> It includes support for PNG alpha layers, and pretty antialiased text
> with Xft

Same hat; what are alpha layers and Xft?
I'd rather just talk about translucent [1] icons and pretty antialiased [2]
text without mentioning PNG alpha layers or Xft.
Also, this sentence needs a . at the end, and it could be separated from the
previous one (although that isn't strictly necessary).

Now, I've read the entire description, and either as a dummy or non-dummy
user I still don't know what I can do with the icons. Are they:
- some sort of shortcuts?
- actual files and directories?
- both?
- icons for minimized applications, as in the iconbox of some motif based
  desktops?


Regards,

Filip

[1] Assuming that's what it does; if it only means that the icons can have
    completely transparant parts that's hardly a feature, and I'd rather
    consider it a misfeature of any icon using app which doesn't do that.

[2] It's debatable if a dummy user knows what antialiased text is, but it is
    good enough a feature to mention it even if only for more experienced
    computer users.

----- End forwarded message -----

Bye
Thorsten

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