[vox] XMMS - A rant about usability

Rob Rogers vox@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:39:56 -0500


On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:32:10AM -0800, Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:06:22PM -0800, John McDonnell wrote:
> > On the 12th day of March, Bill Kendrick said to me:
> > 
> > > Why does it have to look and act different than the rest of my
> > > applications?
> > 
> > Because there's no set of standards that everyone accepts.
> 
> There's one: work nicely with the wm.
> 
> Then all GUI apps would work with the standard that *you* have
> accepted by choosing/configuring your favorite wm.

FWIW xmms can work with your wm, it just doesn't by default. Under
Preferences in Options tab you have to check "Do not hide windowmanager
decorations"