From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie - wassup everyone?
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:50:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4xykWvfri8-eoebQqBzuO3i=geX5EeNKkVty1UoRyNAFV92A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84315c5350862c9cde01bc62af914c57@9srv.net>
a vote for the status quo.
keep in mind, the pastel color palette and lack of unsubtle gradient
have been chosen in rio/acme/sam/etc to keep the programmer's eyes
comfortable throughout the day. i subconsciously change all other
backgrounds and colours on my non-plan9 desktop and terminals to mimic
the plan9 ones because i find that it's the only way i can spend a day
in front of the computer and still enjoy life.
on the topic of bells and whistles: recently in my latest attempt to
"make linux work", i had to switch from unity to xfce and from xfce to
rio because i found the linux world to have moved (yet again) closer
to windows than closer to macs in terms of distractions. sure, i can't
use a few programs such as Synergy (which appears to desperately need
a tray to attach itself to), but on the other hand i don't have to
kill "pulseaudio" every time i want to listen to music. that's so 2003
it's not even funny :(
if you want an advice from the old farts on this mailing list i bet it
would be 'keep distractions to a minimum'. distracting colours too.
cheers!
ps: pastel color schemes are available now elsewhere, thankfully, and
the light "solarized" guicolor theme for vim does wonders to make it
palatable, but quite a few of those make text a pale grey. why?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-21 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-21 1:44 Keith
2013-04-21 3:13 ` a
2013-04-21 3:50 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2013-04-21 7:06 ` lucio
2013-04-21 12:21 Erik Quanstrom
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