Opera & Midnight Commander

[Michael M.]

John Montgomery wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:15:59 -0800
> "Michael M." <nixlists at writemoore.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>MC really needs to be brought into the 21st century before it gets 
>>included in an Ubuntu install.
>>
> 
> If the choice is to include by default or "bring it into the 21st century", I vote to leave things alone.
> 
> There are lots of 21st century things. Leave something for us who like results more than flash.
> 

When did displaying characters without going wonky become "flash"?

It's not a question of mc needing to be loaded with more features that 
it already has, or play music and tap dance while it moves your files. 
It's a question of it needing to work properly in the default environment.

It's the inattention to details like this that keeps more people from 
using Linux.  Too many things cobbled together from different sources 
that don't work well together.  By default, anyway, a distro ought not 
to include tools that will choke in the environment the distro has set. 
  Especially if that distro wants to be seen as "polished."

-- 
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions 
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to 
dream."  --S. Jackson