Derailed (Was: "Code Sandwiches")

[linux user]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.2479.1299981498.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> >I wish all apps followed a defined standard and allowed us to set all
> > applications to use dark backgrounds at once.
> >
> > On Linux you can't even set the cursor blinking to be the same for all
> > apps. Either it's a GTK/KDE/XF/Whatever-specific setting, or you have
> > to hunt down some configuration file
> 
> Hear hear! And I thought Linux/Unix was supposed to be the world of 
> standards. Even on standards-inept Wndows, we have standardization for that 
> sort of thing. Or at least we used to, until we got invaded by non-native 
> toolkits and apps with non-optional skins. (...grumble, grumble...)

There are freedesktop.org standards. Unfortunately they only advocate XML for every application. 
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