Initially, I was skeptical about the design, but it’s actually a pretty nice little tool. When someone wants to borrow a browser, being able to just hit guest, let them play on their own desktop, log them out, and return to what you were doing, is very handy.
Alexander Larsson has posted about Removing flicker from GTK+ using client-side windows. It all sounds great, as far as it goes. I’m just wondering what this means for accessibility though. My understanding was that a lot of accessibility APIs require the formal window definitions to identify widgets etc. Maybe that’s just [...]
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Following their acquisition by Nokia, Trolltech have added an LGPL licensing option to Qt. Qt (pronounced “cute”, not “Q.T.”), the main widget and OS abstraction layer used by KDE and many other Free Software projects, is roughly equivalent to the GTK+ library within GNOME. However, GTK+ has been LGPL from the beginning, which has, arguably, [...]
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