Other than that, I think there are many good usability ideas in smartphone/tablet GUIs which ought to be brought to the desktop. Not the stupid stuff like making a desktop UI look like it was intended to be used with a touchscreen, but doing away with all the superfluous confirmation dialogs. An application should not ask you whether "you really want to quit" you already told it that - instead it should make sure that when you quit nothing bad happens. If you were working on a document but didn't save that yet - then just keep the working copy when the program is closed.
Blender 3D has been doing this for years and the complaints about a missing quit dialog never seem to stop.
Wouldn't this also make selling phones and other devices with an EULA'd OS illegal? I suppose you could just wipe the OS, but it seems like an unnecessary step.
Most likely there were no drivers that complied with the debian free software guidelines. This isn't a problem for Ubuntu (and in turn mint) thanks to it being backed by Canonical, but as a more independent project it's considered too risky to include such non-free drivers in debian. It's a trivial problem to work around most of the time, but it has annoyed me in the past, just not enough to switch distros.
Who decided to build supposedly mission critical software as web apps to begin with, especially ones that only work in old versions of IE? It seems to defeat the whole purpose of using web apps in the first place (which I can't say I've ever understood the appeal of anyway).
OS X used to just have a menu item in finder, but they removed it in (I think) 10.4 for some unknown reason. Maybe they didn't want people seeing all thsoe.DS_Store and._ files that apple likes to litter the filesystem with.
You do know that the web and the internet aren't the same thing, right? The web was never really supposed to be "more then a bunch of bullet pointed lists." We have/had other protocols for communications. You know, not http. Why don't people use those anymore? Why does everything have to be poorly reimplemented as a web application that never works the same across different browsers and sites?
You don't even have to do this if using apt-get, since the google-chrome-stable package says that it conflicts and replaces google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-unstable. aptitude will tell you there's a conflict and recommend you remove the older packages, but apt-get will remove it for you.
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Other than that, I think there are many good usability ideas in smartphone/tablet GUIs which ought to be brought to the desktop. Not the stupid stuff like making a desktop UI look like it was intended to be used with a touchscreen, but doing away with all the superfluous confirmation dialogs. An application should not ask you whether "you really want to quit" you already told it that - instead it should make sure that when you quit nothing bad happens. If you were working on a document but didn't save that yet - then just keep the working copy when the program is closed.
Blender 3D has been doing this for years and the complaints about a missing quit dialog never seem to stop.
"There is absolutely no way to install KDE 4 or Gnome without installing pulseaudio"
Stop using Ubuntu then.
Using imagemagick: .jpg`.jpeg; done;
for f in *.jpg; do mogrify -profile sRGB.icc $f; mv $f `basename $f
You'll need to supply sRGB.icc, but otherwise it seems to work just fine for me.
Wouldn't this also make selling phones and other devices with an EULA'd OS illegal? I suppose you could just wipe the OS, but it seems like an unnecessary step.
You have no idea how ignorant that first paragraph makes you seem.
Most likely there were no drivers that complied with the debian free software guidelines. This isn't a problem for Ubuntu (and in turn mint) thanks to it being backed by Canonical, but as a more independent project it's considered too risky to include such non-free drivers in debian. It's a trivial problem to work around most of the time, but it has annoyed me in the past, just not enough to switch distros.
Curious. By my count, using KDE 4.4.5 on Debian Squeeze, it's about 0 out of a few hundred times. Which distro are you using?
Yes, I am aware that there is a significant component of this that is Kubuntu and not KDE itself.
An understatement, to say the least. I haven't encountered a single one of those bugs on Debian Squeeze.
Who decided to build supposedly mission critical software as web apps to begin with, especially ones that only work in old versions of IE? It seems to defeat the whole purpose of using web apps in the first place (which I can't say I've ever understood the appeal of anyway).
OS X used to just have a menu item in finder, but they removed it in (I think) 10.4 for some unknown reason. Maybe they didn't want people seeing all thsoe .DS_Store and ._ files that apple likes to litter the filesystem with.
It's a good thing Firefox supports out of process plugins now, isn't it?
KDE is still it's own thing. Nokia simply bought Trolltech, who developed the Qt toolkit/framework that's used by KDE.
It also already exists for Konqueror, reKonq, and Arora. No plugin/addon needed.
Uh, no one mentioned giving Acrobat root permissions. Where did you get that idea?
You do know that the web and the internet aren't the same thing, right? The web was never really supposed to be "more then a bunch of bullet pointed lists." We have/had other protocols for communications. You know, not http. Why don't people use those anymore? Why does everything have to be poorly reimplemented as a web application that never works the same across different browsers and sites?
I did do this. I did it before I even replied. It works.
I'm using KDE 4.4.3 on debian sid and konsole remembers the window size just fine.
Technically, Windows 7 is just Windows 6.1 (at least that's what ver says). Vista was 6.0.
You don't even have to do this if using apt-get, since the google-chrome-stable package says that it conflicts and replaces google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-unstable. aptitude will tell you there's a conflict and recommend you remove the older packages, but apt-get will remove it for you.
The physics engine (Newton) is also missing since it's non-free software. One of the devs says that implementing bullet shouldn't be too hard, though.
I'm pretty sure the n900 does.