An open source database from Germany carried the name Firefox, so the project was renamed for the last time. It was called Firefox.
(sic)
The name changes Mozilla has gone through are so confusing even the author cannot properly keep track of them. The database was called Firebird.
One good thing to come out of all the messing was they made sure to carefully isolate all the branding information and make tools like Firesomething possible, allowing users to personalise their browser.
26.
The dialog for choosing a session similarly includes "Last" without
telling me which that was, and "Default System Session" without telling
me which that is. It also offers "GNOME" and "Failsafe Gnome"; failsafe
behavior, apparently, is achieved partly by not SHOUTING.
Given that he's spent much of the previous 25 nitpickings whinging
about capitalization, I can't help but wonder if GNOME was written as
'Gnome', would he complain that it was incorrectly capitalized, being
an acronym and all?
If it were an acronym it should be spelt G.N.O.M.E.
The sooner we kill off the made up acronym and move on the better we'll be.
I do agree that this program is no threat to the GIMP. Its licensing is more restrictive, it requires.NET, and, as you say, it addresses a different niche of users.
Granted the requirement of the.Net platform could be a problem but how is a BSD style license (which is what Paint.Net uses) more restrictive than the GIMP which uses the GPL?
The GPL is a great license and it includes restrictions that make it harder for people to screw over the orignal authors but those are still restrictions.
you could easy set up bookmark keywords for your searches that way.
You are missing the point entirely.
Mozilla "out of the box" does more of what some of what some of want and are used to and it is not worth switching to Firefox if we have to waste time adding it all back in.
Frankley I'm amazed that the Firefox developers saw fit to compltely remove the search option from the location bar. Those who knew about it could keep on using it and newbies could use the easier to find search box. What harm would it have been to leave well enough alone?
I for one regularly need use Mozilla Composer to correct ugly ass webpages into something less harsh on the eyes and more readable. I like having Chatzilla around too. Just because I could add it back in doesn't mean I think that would be a worthwhile way to spend my time.
Fact is that I do use a lot of the suite, some of it more often than other parts but just because I dont use it often doesn't mean I want to get rid of it. The improvements to the gecko rendering engine are shared between Mozilla and Firefox which is what is really important and any improvements I have seen in firefox do not outweigh all the little annoyances and missing bits I would have to add back in.
Microsoft "innovated" so many of the features of Word from WordPerfect it is not even funny.
Microsoft have hardly innovated anything at all unless you count Microsoft Bob and Clippy.
You really should check out the Microsoft Hall of Innovation
A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida to thaw out during one particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the very same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel.
There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her e-mailaddress, and without realizing his error, he sent the e-mail.
Meanwhile...somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who was called home to glory following a sudden heart attack. The widow decided to check her e-mail, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she fainted.
The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My Loving Wife Subject: I've Arrived Date: 16 May 2003
I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones. I've just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. Sure is hot down here! ----- End forwarded message -----
For a very long time too. I never understood the source of the constant right-click complaints when it's been invalid for ages.
GIMP 2 was only released this summer (2004), although prereleases have been just about usable it is not fair to say the complaint has been invalid for ages. Distributions did not pick it up immediately, so it comes as no surprise that many users have still not upgraded yet.
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> My guess is that they really didn't know the language, per se, just the translation.
I'd agree with that. It is just the kind of neat answer that Jack would give. They might be a little less clueless about the language but memorizing the translation is a whole lot easier and more likely than actually learning a whole lot about the language.
I've learnt plenty of stuff long enough to do exams and then forgotten it. Sure it is easy enought to relearn but I'm damned if I can still recite whole tracts of Shakespeare from memory.
>>...except if you're used to the power of Photoshop
Photoshop includes those features by default, GIMP dont.
Photoshop not leave you wondering if plugin exist, no time waste trying to find plugin.
> The idea of the GIMP is to provide you with the tools to do the job
sure, the GIMP provides basic tools to the job, but that is not the point here "if you're used to the power of Photoshop" to be good enough for someone used to the powerf of Photoshop more needs to be included by default.
blame distributions if you want, but to better Photoshop Gimp need to be setup with all extras.
This has been supported for quite some time as a compile time option. The 256 is maintained as the default for XL compatibilty.
Could it be made into a runtime condition? Does it hurt performance to have more than 256 columns by default?
Perhaps if there was a warning given when you exceed 256 columns or when you try to save to Excel and you document contains more than 256 columns.
Features that are hard to find are wasted on most users, if it were a visible user configurable option it would not be so hiddent and Gnumeric would get more of the credit it so rightly deserves for being just about the best spreadsheat out there!
Many people slighlty miss the point of this one, it is not as unreasonable as it first sounds. With better interoperability and some standards a 'universal GUI' is very much possible.
There is no reason why mulitiple toolkits such as GTK and QT, XUL, Motif and others should not continue to exist but they should be able to integrate so that users are not able to tell what toolkit was used anymore than they can tell what programming language was used to produce the application.
The attempts by various distributions such as Red Hat to produce consistant themes is just a band aid on a much bigger technical puzzle.
With any luck XUL, kaXUL, gladeXML and others will come together to offer a standard way of describing user interfaces and users will be presented with applications that look the same irrespective of the toolkit used.
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MET NEITHER IN PERSON NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE.
I AM WRITING YOU IN ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE PRIMARILY TO SEEK YOUR ASSISTANCE IN ACQUIRING OIL FUNDS THAT ARE PRESENTLY TRAPPED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ. MY PARTNERS AND I SOLICIT YOUR ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING A TRANSACTION BEGUN BY MY FATHER, WHO HAS LONG BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THE EXTRACTION OF PETROLEUM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND BRAVELY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
IN THE DECADE OF THE NINETEEN-EIGHTIES, MY FATHER, THEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SOUGHT TO WORK WITH THE GOOD OFFICES OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ TO REGAIN LOST OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN. THIS UNSUCCESSFUL VENTURE WAS SOON FOLLOWED BY A FALLING OUT WITH HIS IRAQI PARTNER, WHO SOUGHT TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL OIL REVENUE SOURCES IN THE NEIGHBORING EMIRATE OF KUWAIT, A WHOLLY-OWNED U.S.-BRITISH SUBSIDIARY.
MY FATHER RE-SECURED THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF KUWAIT IN 1991 AT A COST OF SIXTY-ONE BILLION U.S. DOLLARS ($61,000,000,000). OUT OF THAT COST.
THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS ($36,000,000,000) WERE SUPPLIED BY HIS PARTNERS IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA AND OTHER PERSIAN GULF MONARCHIES, AND SIXTEEN BILLION DOLLARS ($16,000,000,000) BY GERMAN AND JAPANESE PARTNERS.
BUT MY FATHER'S FORMER IRAQI BUSINESS PARTNER REMAINED IN CONTROL OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ITS PETROLEUM RESERVES.
MY FAMILY IS CALLING FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE REMOVAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRAQ AND ACQUIRING THE PETROLEUM ASSETS OF HIS COUNTRY, AS COMPENSATION FOR THE COSTS OF REMOVING HIM FROM POWER.
UNFORTUNATELY, OUR PARTNERS FROM 1991 ARE NOT WILLING TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF THIS NEW VENTURE, WHICH IN ITS UPCOMING PHASE MAY COST THE SUM OF 100 BILLION TO 200 BILLION DOLLARS ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), BOTH IN THE INITIAL ACQUISITION AND IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT.
WITHOUT THE FUNDS FROM OUR 1991 PARTNERS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACQUIRE THE OIL REVENUE TRAPPED WITHIN IRAQ. THAT IS WHY MY FAMILY AND OUR COLLEAGUES ARE URGENTLY SEEKING YOUR GRACIOUS ASSISTANCE. OUR DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES IN THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION INCLUDE THE SITTING VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RICHARD CHENEY, WHO IS AN ORIGINAL PARTNER IN THE IRAQ VENTURE AND FORMER HEAD OF THE ALLIBURTON OIL COMPANY, AND CONDOLEEZA RICE, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE VENTURE WAS DEMONSTRATED IN THE NAMING OF A CHEVRON OIL TANKER AFTER HER.
I WOULD BESEECH YOU TO TRANSFER A SUM EQUALING TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT (10-25 %) OF YOUR YEARLY INCOME TO OUR ACCOUNT TO AID IN THIS IMPORTANT VENTURE. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL FUNCTION AS OUR TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY. I PROPOSE THAT YOU MAKE THIS TRANSFER BEFORE THE FIFTEENTH (15TH) OF THE MONTH OF APRIL.
I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED. BUT I AM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY. A BOLD STEP TAKEN SHALL NOT BE REGRETTED, I ASSURE YOU. PLEASE DO BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CO-OPERATE IN THIS TRANSACTION, PLEASE CONTACT OUR INTERMEDIARY REPRESENTATIVES TO FURTHER DISCUSS THE MATTER.
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Inkscape keeps a list of other projects and tries to find good ideas to learn from
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OtherProjects
The name changes Mozilla has gone through are so confusing even the author cannot properly keep track of them. The database was called Firebird. One good thing to come out of all the messing was they made sure to carefully isolate all the branding information and make tools like Firesomething possible, allowing users to personalise their browser.
OpenOffice is way too big for the limited storage space on these things, you wont be storing your Mp3 collection on it either.
The trailer for Doctor Who Episode: Dalek
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/video/index.shtml
It is in Real Video format.
Maybe a good slashdottting will encourage the BBC to put up bitorrent links for its trailers?
The sooner we kill off the made up acronym and move on the better we'll be.
it is an XML UI config file, standard GTK 2 stuff.
porting is non issue it is minor patch and rebuild.
Wikipedia article on GTK
"Initially created for the graphics program the GIMP, the GIMP Toolkit."
Transcript? What you mean you actually want to read the article?
Granted the requirement of the
The GPL is a great license and it includes restrictions that make it harder for people to screw over the orignal authors but those are still restrictions.
You are missing the point entirely.
Mozilla "out of the box" does more of what some of what some of want and are used to and it is not worth switching to Firefox if we have to waste time adding it all back in.
Frankley I'm amazed that the Firefox developers saw fit to compltely remove the search option from the location bar. Those who knew about it could keep on using it and newbies could use the easier to find search box.
What harm would it have been to leave well enough alone?
I for one regularly need use Mozilla Composer to correct ugly ass webpages into something less harsh on the eyes and more readable. I like having Chatzilla around too. Just because I could add it back in doesn't mean I think that would be a worthwhile way to spend my time.
Fact is that I do use a lot of the suite, some of it more often than other parts but just because I dont use it often doesn't mean I want to get rid of it. The improvements to the gecko rendering engine are shared between Mozilla and Firefox which is what is really important and any improvements I have seen in firefox do not outweigh all the little annoyances and missing bits I would have to add back in.
Microsoft "innovated" so many of the features of Word from WordPerfect it is not even funny.
Microsoft have hardly innovated anything at all unless you count Microsoft Bob and Clippy.
You really should check out the Microsoft Hall of Innovation
No, it should be: Learn everybody to use England properly.
Try using
gimp --no-data --no-splash --no-fonts
it is a whole lot faster but has some downsides
Not preloading data (patterns gradients etc) will break some scripts
Not preloading fonts will break some scripts.
I have no idea why they think a slow startup is acceptable and do not wait to load thing on-demand when they are actually needed.
A couple from Minneapolis decided to go to Florida to thaw out during one particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the very same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So, the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down
the following day. The husband checked into the hotel.
There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife.
However, he accidentally left out one letter in her e-mailaddress, and without
realizing his error, he sent the e-mail.
Meanwhile...somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her
husband's funeral. He was a minister of many years who was called home to
glory following a sudden heart attack. The widow decided to check her
e-mail, expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the
first message, she fainted.
The widow's son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and
saw the computer screen which read:
To: My Loving Wife
Subject: I've Arrived
Date: 16 May 2003
I know you're surprised to hear from me. They have
computers here now and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones.
I've just arrived and have been checked in.
I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow.
Looking forward to seeing you then!
Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. Sure is hot down here!
----- End forwarded message -----
GIMP 2 was only released this summer (2004), although prereleases have been just about usable it is not fair to say the complaint has been invalid for ages.
Distributions did not pick it up immediately, so it comes as no surprise that many users have still not upgraded yet.
agreed there is nothing amusing about his writing style, a whole book written like that would be unbearable
The word is "Usability"
The spelling is so bad on Slashdot people actually start believing the wrong spellings!
sigh
> My guess is that they really didn't know the language, per se, just the translation.
I'd agree with that. It is just the kind of neat answer that Jack would give.
They might be a little less clueless about the language but memorizing the translation is a whole lot easier and more likely than actually learning a whole lot about the language.
I've learnt plenty of stuff long enough to do exams and then forgotten it. Sure it is easy enought to relearn but I'm damned if I can still recite whole tracts of Shakespeare from memory.
not yet, the article says Javascript is in the works and there are some Perl scripts available but I dont think they are directly hooked into Inkscape
>> ...except if you're used to the power of Photoshop
Photoshop includes those features by default,
GIMP dont.
Photoshop not leave you wondering if plugin exist, no time waste trying to find plugin.
> The idea of the GIMP is to provide you with the tools to do the job
sure, the GIMP provides basic tools to the job, but that is not the point here
"if you're used to the power of Photoshop"
to be good enough for someone used to the powerf of Photoshop more needs to be included by default.
blame distributions if you want, but to better Photoshop Gimp need to be setup with all extras.
Could it be made into a runtime condition?
Does it hurt performance to have more than 256 columns by default?
Perhaps if there was a warning given when you exceed 256 columns or when you try to save to Excel and you document contains more than 256 columns.
Features that are hard to find are wasted on most users, if it were a visible user configurable option it would not be so hiddent and Gnumeric would get more of the credit it so rightly deserves for being just about the best spreadsheat out there!
>> 3.) one solid universal gui
Many people slighlty miss the point of this one, it is not as unreasonable as it first sounds.
With better interoperability and some standards a 'universal GUI' is very much possible.
There is no reason why mulitiple toolkits such as GTK and QT, XUL, Motif and others should not continue to exist but they should be able to integrate so that users are not able to tell what toolkit was used anymore than they can tell what programming language was used to produce the application.
The attempts by various distributions such as Red Hat to produce consistant themes is just a band aid on a much bigger technical puzzle.
With any luck XUL, kaXUL, gladeXML and others will come together to offer a standard way of describing user interfaces and users will be presented with applications that look the same irrespective of the toolkit used.
Why cant we have email address portability like the way we (barely) have portability for cell phone numbers?
I think it is a prime opportunity for the government to interfere and open up the market!