Re: [MiNT] Background

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>]

On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 17:41 +0000, Peter Slegg wrote:

> > > This is not how it works. The AES draws the desktop. Period. The
> 
> How it works is irrelevant. Users don't care about the inplementation.
> They DO care that their desktops are broken.

That bug has been fixed.

> No one has yet answered the original question of how to turn this crap off.

How to turn off that bug you mean? ;)

> People seem to have forgotten what defines an Operating System.
> It is there to enhance the usability of the hardware by user applications.,
> 
> An OS is not there to do application level stuff.
> It is not there to stop applications doing what they were designed to do.

In GEM, the AES draws the desktop. It has done so since 1985 and
changing that will indeed break things.

> The aes shouldn't even have it's own menu and desktop screen, that has
> always been a strange feature that should be removed.

So what happens if there's no app with a desktop? Or no apps with
menulines?

Jo Even