Re: [MiNT] XaAES

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:08 +0200, Peter Slegg wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:27:07 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
> > >
> > > That's really good news on both counts. I am interested that you
> > > don't have any network problems. Have you tried sending larg-ish
> > > e-mails or viewing pages with big jpegs in them ?
> >
> > Haven't tried mails, because I'm so frustrated with the quality of the
> > available mail clients... But I've transfer a 12Gb backup from the Milan to
> > my PC and back again (ftp), and the archives where fine. Viewing large
> > images with Highwire works fine.
> 
> Hmm, remind me which network card/driver you use. I'm using
> the rtl driver.
> 
> > > I tried Xaaes, it looks good and being able to use the wheel
> > > mouse is handy but until the network problems are fixed I am
> > > stuck with 1.15.12 and NAES.
> >
> > You might want to try 1.16 with XaAES instead of N.AES, as it seems to work
> > a lot better. So far I'm very pleased.
> 
> There are still network problems when using Xaaes so I still
> can't use 1.16
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter

This thread encouraged me to give XaAES another shot.  I tried it
recently, a couple months ago perhaps, and it was looking pretty good
but still had some issues.  Still had some instability.  I put on
current CVS mint, xfs, xdd, and xaaes.  Wow...  It's *wonderful*.  For
the most part everything works as expected and seems faster even than
N.AES.  I don't know what else you could ask for.  Plus the default
window widgets now are quite hot with their use of color and such :)

The only problem I found is that sometimes the menus stop working.
You'll go into the menu and nothing will be clickable.  The bar won't
show up in the menu either.  I've found you can get around it by
switching the active window, but it happens pretty often.  Everything
else is so rock solid that I'll just deal with this.  There's no more
weird drawing artifacts or anything.  It's just wonderful now :)

Thanks for everyone's hard work!  We have a free AES that can truly be
called superb!

Mark