There is a Compiz plugin (which I don't remember if it is among the default installed plugins in Ubuntu) which is often touted as a clone of Mac OS X's Expose, and it is called Scale.
What it does is well... scale all the windows in the current viewport and lay them out on the screen, so you can select one of them. Is that what you were looking for?
(I have set this thing to activate whenever I move the mouse cursor to the top right corner, very handy)
Yeah, but MS Windows doesn't have those, or a decent window manager for that matter.
Let's face it: the GIMP does a crappy work at respecting Windows' conventions and limitations. That makes it a crappy app. in Windows IMO.
The GIMP folks could make a better effort at porting the program into Windows. If Chuck Norris could, and he is no programmer, why couldn't they do that?:)
You are right (as far as I know, anyway), but I think that s/he was just partitioning the set of 'bees' into three different subsets that don't overlap, without talking about the distribution of the different species, varieties, etc. of bees within those sets.
Note: In the course of researching this article, I stumbled across what may be the most disturbing document I have ever encountered on the Internet, and that's saying something. Let's just say that if you do want to kill yourself (and I certainly hope that you don't), the information is in fact out there. In great and excruciating detail. I had no previous knowledge of what the ingestion of lye could do to a human body. This was one of the most life-hating documents I've ever had the misfortune to read; be aware of what you're in for if you attempt to replicate the study results on your own. Now, go hug a child.
Yes, but don't worry, a person wanting to commit suicide can also find plenty of
good advice on the web that will give him or her some perspective and allow him/her to make a wise desicion.
Then don't use it. Firefox is done by Mozilla, and the Mozilla guys love adding stuff
to their browser, because they really like having big browsers.
Currently, I don't use Firefox. I use Epiphany, a Gecko (Firefox's layout engine, perphaps their greatest contribution to humanity) based browser precisely for its 'OS integration'.
What integration you say? Well, for one, it actually looks like a native app, because it is. Its interface is written in actual GTK2 instead of XUL, so its widgets follow my current theme, ans so do its icons.
Now, TFA wasn't talking about that kind of integration, but of integrating web apps into your desktop thru, for example, Prism. Now, I followed the link to Prism and they say that currently they are just experimenting and that, so far, they have written an app that lets the user make launchers for web apps in their platform's (OS, DE, etc.) native way, and that manages settings for them.
Yes, that's it.
They get right to the door of your OS and leave a box in front of it, and let the OS and the user take care of things from them.
No weird native code running from the browser or anything of that sort, they are integrating web apps better by making it easier to run web apps.
To me, it seems like a fancy intrawebs delivery service, which is a way to see what Firefox does for the user —as it lets him get web stuff— and they want to be better at that.
I don't see why is Slashdot so paranoid about Mozilla nor why are they raging because they want to improve the software (ok, extend, but they did improve Firefox's memory management, didn't they?), but I look forward to see more stuff from the Mozilla guys.
KDE's basic HIG is just "see how many buttons you can add to that menu". That is simply not true.
I was going to say that the webpage you linked sucked as a HIG because it hardly defined an actual style for KDE applications, but it seem like you got the pages mixed up. That one wasn't the real HIG, it was just a document with general UI design advice meant to complement the
actual HIG.
That said, I can't say that KDE doesn't respect its own guidelines —as the last time I used the environment full time was for a few months in 2005-2006— but I can tell that they don't care much for that advice page you cited, as the last time I fired up a Kubuntu live CD I saw the one thing that annoys me from KDE: the little icons in the many toolbars. I find that they klutter (sorry, couldn't resist;) the interface, and that they're hard to hit. I specially dislike the vertical toolbars, but I guess that's a matter of taste.
This is not only from Kubuntu, this is exactly how I remember Suse's KDE to be back in 2005 (only without the folders that jumped at you when you clicked them;), of which I have fond memories after coming from Windows.
Perhaps it was just the bright icons, or their padding, but I really disliked those toolbars. I guess that makes me a GNOMEr (that sounded weird...)
In tomorrow's story, don't you all hate that weird 'Control' and 'Meta' stuff in EMACS?
Way to go, pal! Half of these programs are games —where silly names don't matter (and may save you from a trademark infringement violation)— and GDM is actually an acronym.
Your cognitive abilities are the comparison chosen by you. It is subjective. A lion would certainly deem you inferior because you can't take it down bare handed. Another human would deem you inferior because of your possessions (or lack of thereof).
(and come on, admit it, you weren't looking at the printed message in that woman's shirt:)
Why should he? They suck, and no one cares, as they are fan pages. If someone truly cared for those articles (i.e.: if someone was actually interested in reading them), they would have been rewritten already, instead of languishing in their stubby state.
Or... the geeks that want to have articles for every minor character in their favourite TV shows could go to Everything2.org, where they own their articles and there is no policy on relevancy or bias, and leave Wikipedia alone, if they feel unwanted by "the regulars" there.
I'm sure that most people here know the site, and that most of the people that want to know about the backstory of every Warcraft characther would have no problem going there to get their fix of trivia instead of going to Wikipedia.
Yes, it's the commies/evil corporations that are after your precious bodily fluids.
Or it could be that those hormones get in the water through human (female, on pills) urine, as the FA says and has been said since years ago, who knows?
Wow, this is actually an original comment, instead of some copy+paste from somewhere else.
Well, let me be the first to say it: if MS-everything is actually cheaper for your bussiness in the long run, then by all means use their stuff like that. But bear in mind that they can always force an 'upgrade' upon you just by making their new stuff incompatible with your version, just like they make it incompatible with all other software.
And no, FOSS developers (and users!) will never join all to make a single product, as Open Source is about choice and freedom, it is inevitable that someone will make an alternative to some program simply because he or she doesn't like the way it works, or the way it is developed. And it is likely that many will agree with the 'dissident' and use and develop the program, thus 'wasting effort'.
And now I will shut up because this is way off-topic;)
I seem to recall that when I had problems with the nVidia proprietary driver and I switched back to the open source one, gnash ceased to work properly, if at all.
And indeed, as said in the comments on this Linux.com article
gnash can use OpenGL to render flash animations, and thus require hardware acceleration to work. And the description of the package on the Ubuntu repos says that it is built to use OpenGL.
Perhaps this is the reason why you can't use gnash to use youtube, you may not have drivers that give you hardware acceleration support for your VGA.
I don't know, I have the x86-64 gnash binaries from my distro's repos and they allow me to watch youtube videos just fine
Interesting. I wonder why it works for you and not for me.
Edit: BTW, if you are using Adobe's flash plugin, doesn't that mean that you are using ndiswrapper and a 32-bit browser?
I don't know. I do an apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree, and it Just Works.
I went to Synaptic (yeah, for pansies, etc.) to learn more about the flashplugin-nonfree pakage (I'm using Ubuntu, by the way), and yeah, it doesn't require ndiswrapper, but it depends on nspluginwrapper instead*, which allows you to use the standard 32 bit plugin with your 64 bit browser, so yay for nspluginwrapper!.
*Silly me, ndiswrapper is for using Windows drivers in Unixy OSes.
I don't know, I have the x86-64 gnash binaries from my distro's repos and they allow me to watch youtube videos just fine... as long as I do so on youtube.com itself.
Other than that, it rarely works. Fortunately for me, it works for the stupid flash announcement boxes that my Uni uses on its webpage.
I recall that the Mozilla dev team has some precompiled gnash binaries which you can download somewhere.
Edit: BTW, if you are using Adobe's flash plugin, doesn't that mean that you are using ndiswrapper and a 32-bit browser?
You see, her mother did monitor her activities down teh intertubes. She held her MySpace password and the girl had to ask her permission prior to adding the 'boy' to her list of contacts and establishing conversation.
Megan established a relationship —online, yes, but a relationship after all— with her neighbor's sockpuppet and held it for weeks... until suddenly the boy turned on her, insulted her and threatened to defamate her among her school friends.
Then, her parents reacted poorly to their daughter's distress, and for that they are being blamed.
But, is that really fair, in light of the effort they put in overseeing the development of their child (or at least what she did online)? In my opinion, it is like blaming for your house being burn to the ground, as you didn't react in a way that would have prevented that, after some guy threw molotovs at it!
I find this case extremely disturbing, as this was an adult who bypassed all the protection that the parents put on their child, and toyed with her knowing that the consequences would not be good.
I live across the Andes, in Chile, and piracy here is rampant as well.
It is not about a lack of technical orientation, after all, who installs the illegal copies of Windows for their friends and themselves but those knowledgeable?
No, they will install Windows because it is useful to them, and they feel that they are somehow entitled to it and all the software that runs on it. Whenever anyone condemns their practices on a forum, the shit-hurling begins, and soon that person will be burnt to crisp and covered in excrement.
Even if they bitch about MS —or any proprietary software vendor— (because that's the cool thing to do), they keep using their software, and when the fact that they are using it without paying for it is pointed, they cite the evilness of the companies as an excuse, their own poverty, and how everyone else is doing it.
Nope, they won't use Free software, not even because it is gratis.
I'm afraid that I don't have any (+5, Insightful) explanation for this, other than the fact that, as the post that I'm responding to says, Linux isn't Windows.
Linux doesn't run the software that all the cool kids are running. Linux doesn't do things the way they are used to. Linux is for dreamers and for commies.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean like this?
Granted, RedHat's list is vastly larger, but they have been on bussiness (and on top) for much longer than Canonical/Ubuntu.
Oh, and please tell me when I can get a Dell laptop with Fedora installed on it.
I used too much Windows and now I can't remember where are my modpoints :(
If you are using Firefox or Epiphany, pressing / will allow you to search the text of the link and press enter to access it.
Or you could just use a CLI browser to minimize the use of the rodent.
There is a Compiz plugin (which I don't remember if it is among the default installed plugins in Ubuntu) which is often touted as a clone of Mac OS X's Expose, and it is called Scale.
What it does is well... scale all the windows in the current viewport and lay them out on the screen, so you can select one of them. Is that what you were looking for?
(I have set this thing to activate whenever I move the mouse cursor to the top right corner, very handy)
Yeah, but MS Windows doesn't have those, or a decent window manager for that matter.
Let's face it: the GIMP does a crappy work at respecting Windows' conventions and limitations. That makes it a crappy app. in Windows IMO.
The GIMP folks could make a better effort at porting the program into Windows. If Chuck Norris could, and he is no programmer, why couldn't they do that? :)
You are right (as far as I know, anyway), but I think that s/he was just partitioning the set of 'bees' into three different subsets that don't overlap, without talking about the distribution of the different species, varieties, etc. of bees within those sets.
Yes, but don't worry, a person wanting to commit suicide can also find plenty of good advice on the web that will give him or her some perspective and allow him/her to make a wise desicion.
You do know that there are these things called "GTK themes" that allow you to change the look of GTK widgets?
Amazing, yeah, I know.
So you don't want more features in Firefox?
Then don't use it. Firefox is done by Mozilla, and the Mozilla guys love adding stuff to their browser, because they really like having big browsers.
Currently, I don't use Firefox. I use Epiphany, a Gecko (Firefox's layout engine, perphaps their greatest contribution to humanity) based browser precisely for its 'OS integration'.
What integration you say? Well, for one, it actually looks like a native app, because it is. Its interface is written in actual GTK2 instead of XUL, so its widgets follow my current theme, ans so do its icons.
Now, TFA wasn't talking about that kind of integration, but of integrating web apps into your desktop thru, for example, Prism. Now, I followed the link to Prism and they say that currently they are just experimenting and that, so far, they have written an app that lets the user make launchers for web apps in their platform's (OS, DE, etc.) native way, and that manages settings for them.
Yes, that's it.
They get right to the door of your OS and leave a box in front of it, and let the OS and the user take care of things from them.
No weird native code running from the browser or anything of that sort, they are integrating web apps better by making it easier to run web apps.
To me, it seems like a fancy intrawebs delivery service, which is a way to see what Firefox does for the user —as it lets him get web stuff— and they want to be better at that.
I don't see why is Slashdot so paranoid about Mozilla nor why are they raging because they want to improve the software (ok, extend, but they did improve Firefox's memory management, didn't they?), but I look forward to see more stuff from the Mozilla guys.
I was going to say that the webpage you linked sucked as a HIG because it hardly defined an actual style for KDE applications, but it seem like you got the pages mixed up. That one wasn't the real HIG, it was just a document with general UI design advice meant to complement the actual HIG.
That said, I can't say that KDE doesn't respect its own guidelines —as the last time I used the environment full time was for a few months in 2005-2006— but I can tell that they don't care much for that advice page you cited, as the last time I fired up a Kubuntu live CD I saw the one thing that annoys me from KDE: the little icons in the many toolbars. I find that they klutter (sorry, couldn't resist ;) the interface, and that they're hard to hit. I specially dislike the vertical toolbars, but I guess that's a matter of taste.
This is not only from Kubuntu, this is exactly how I remember Suse's KDE to be back in 2005 (only without the folders that jumped at you when you clicked them ;), of which I have fond memories after coming from Windows.
Perhaps it was just the bright icons, or their padding, but I really disliked those toolbars. I guess that makes me a GNOMEr (that sounded weird...)
In tomorrow's story, don't you all hate that weird 'Control' and 'Meta' stuff in EMACS?
Way to go, pal! Half of these programs are games —where silly names don't matter (and may save you from a trademark infringement violation)— and GDM is actually an acronym.
I think he is talking about the fabled unix beard that many gurus sport and which is said to convey great powers to he (or she!) who grows it.
With their silly partial order relationships.
Your cognitive abilities are the comparison chosen by you. It is subjective. A lion would certainly deem you inferior because you can't take it down bare handed. Another human would deem you inferior because of your possessions (or lack of thereof).
(and come on, admit it, you weren't looking at the printed message in that woman's shirt :)
Why should he? They suck, and no one cares, as they are fan pages. If someone truly cared for those articles (i.e.: if someone was actually interested in reading them), they would have been rewritten already, instead of languishing in their stubby state.
Or... the geeks that want to have articles for every minor character in their favourite TV shows could go to Everything2.org, where they own their articles and there is no policy on relevancy or bias, and leave Wikipedia alone, if they feel unwanted by "the regulars" there.
I'm sure that most people here know the site, and that most of the people that want to know about the backstory of every Warcraft characther would have no problem going there to get their fix of trivia instead of going to Wikipedia.
Yes, it's the commies/evil corporations that are after your precious bodily fluids.
Or it could be that those hormones get in the water through human (female, on pills) urine, as the FA says and has been said since years ago, who knows?
<insert ascii drawing of the parent not getting a joke here>
Wow, this is actually an original comment, instead of some copy+paste from somewhere else.
Well, let me be the first to say it: if MS-everything is actually cheaper for your bussiness in the long run, then by all means use their stuff like that. But bear in mind that they can always force an 'upgrade' upon you just by making their new stuff incompatible with your version, just like they make it incompatible with all other software.
And no, FOSS developers (and users!) will never join all to make a single product, as Open Source is about choice and freedom, it is inevitable that someone will make an alternative to some program simply because he or she doesn't like the way it works, or the way it is developed. And it is likely that many will agree with the 'dissident' and use and develop the program, thus 'wasting effort'.
And now I will shut up because this is way off-topic ;)
I'm on Ubuntu Gutsy as well.
I seem to recall that when I had problems with the nVidia proprietary driver and I switched back to the open source one, gnash ceased to work properly, if at all.
And indeed, as said in the comments on this Linux.com article gnash can use OpenGL to render flash animations, and thus require hardware acceleration to work. And the description of the package on the Ubuntu repos says that it is built to use OpenGL.
Perhaps this is the reason why you can't use gnash to use youtube, you may not have drivers that give you hardware acceleration support for your VGA.
I went to Synaptic (yeah, for pansies, etc.) to learn more about the flashplugin-nonfree pakage (I'm using Ubuntu, by the way), and yeah, it doesn't require ndiswrapper, but it depends on nspluginwrapper instead*, which allows you to use the standard 32 bit plugin with your 64 bit browser, so yay for nspluginwrapper!.
*Silly me, ndiswrapper is for using Windows drivers in Unixy OSes.
I don't know, I have the x86-64 gnash binaries from my distro's repos and they allow me to watch youtube videos just fine... as long as I do so on youtube.com itself.
Other than that, it rarely works. Fortunately for me, it works for the stupid flash announcement boxes that my Uni uses on its webpage.
I recall that the Mozilla dev team has some precompiled gnash binaries which you can download somewhere.
Edit: BTW, if you are using Adobe's flash plugin, doesn't that mean that you are using ndiswrapper and a 32-bit browser?
M-x doctor
Well, this case is rather hard.
You see, her mother did monitor her activities down teh intertubes. She held her MySpace password and the girl had to ask her permission prior to adding the 'boy' to her list of contacts and establishing conversation.
Megan established a relationship —online, yes, but a relationship after all— with her neighbor's sockpuppet and held it for weeks... until suddenly the boy turned on her, insulted her and threatened to defamate her among her school friends.
Then, her parents reacted poorly to their daughter's distress, and for that they are being blamed.
But, is that really fair, in light of the effort they put in overseeing the development of their child (or at least what she did online)? In my opinion, it is like blaming for your house being burn to the ground, as you didn't react in a way that would have prevented that, after some guy threw molotovs at it!
I find this case extremely disturbing, as this was an adult who bypassed all the protection that the parents put on their child, and toyed with her knowing that the consequences would not be good.
Ashamed and sad. Almost as much as if it were NAKED AND PETRIFIED... or something.
Certainly.
I live across the Andes, in Chile, and piracy here is rampant as well.
It is not about a lack of technical orientation, after all, who installs the illegal copies of Windows for their friends and themselves but those knowledgeable?
No, they will install Windows because it is useful to them, and they feel that they are somehow entitled to it and all the software that runs on it. Whenever anyone condemns their practices on a forum, the shit-hurling begins, and soon that person will be burnt to crisp and covered in excrement.
Even if they bitch about MS —or any proprietary software vendor— (because that's the cool thing to do), they keep using their software, and when the fact that they are using it without paying for it is pointed, they cite the evilness of the companies as an excuse, their own poverty, and how everyone else is doing it.
Nope, they won't use Free software, not even because it is gratis.
I'm afraid that I don't have any (+5, Insightful) explanation for this, other than the fact that, as the post that I'm responding to says, Linux isn't Windows.
Linux doesn't run the software that all the cool kids are running. Linux doesn't do things the way they are used to. Linux is for dreamers and for commies.
Which is sad.