On 03/26/2012 08:44 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say "it sucks";
I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick
look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it
to anyone, especially with hopes that it might an easy transition from
OS X. Choosing Comice Classic at login, I did have a working dock with
icons which included "Finder" so finding my home folder was a cinch.
The Dock icon set mysteriously changed at some point and I could not
find an obvious way to do that deliberately. Beyond that, the control
center made me feel mostly like there was little I could do to take
control. The software center seems very easy to "get", though, and
that's a big plus. The UI has with good snap, but in the end, a lot of
simple basic stuff is not intuitive for the new user. I think even
less than most of the more traditional flavored DEs.
I also discovered that my unmodified install is useless with Livecode,
which is Pete's interest. There are all kinds of problems with
characters in scripts. you can't use "/". Quotes are treated literally
as in:
put "something" into tAnything; put tAnything
returns "something" with the quotes. If someone can tell me what's the
likely cause, I'd be interested to know :D Even more interested in
knowing how to remedy it.
It was only a cursory look. I've never liked the stock OS X Dock and
always ran it without 3D, reflections and animations
PearOS uses CairoDock. I use, whatever the distro, Avant Window
Navigator; it can be easily configured to present a flat, transparent
dock with no annoying resizing of icons, 3D fluff and so on. I find that
Avant Window Navigator can closely resemble the Mac OS 10.2
dock - which I much preferred to later versions. Personally I think that
the Mac Dock is about the best thing about Mac OS, so have made sure
I have had a dock wherever I have worked; even going to far as to have
one in my Virtual box running Windows XP.
Of course, with XFCE (let's say Xubuntu) one can set the bottom panel to
behave in almost the same way; without the overhead of having to
install AWN.
and set it out of the way in the lower left corner, so this was
definitely not a positive feature for me, but that's a matter of
taste. That said, this distro has some real drawbacks in my opinion.
Pete, this is not the best choice. Sorry to have brought it up.
Warren
Certainly, with Ubuntu and its spinoffs (currently doing most of my
stuff with Xubuntu 12.04 beta 1), Livecode generally behaves
itself; although my Dictionary stack does seem to crash the IDE. However
this may be due to my warped route to Xubuntu; Ubuntu 12.04
with UNITY, mucked about with Cinnamon, mucked about with MATE, mucked
about with Lubuntu, installed XFCE. Until I pull
myself together and reinstall a "virgin" install of Xubuntu (not likely
until the April full release) I won't know for certain why this is
happening.
I have had Livecode doing very nicely with ZevenOS, a sort of kiddified
Debian; got cheesed-off with the distro as it kept dumping me in
dependency hell; so I dumped it.
I have always stuck to Debian derivs, so cannot really say anything
about other types of Linux.
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