On the other hand, if you already have an existing text file, it is effortless to append or prepend text to it. Take a look at a this.
It's always effortless to append, just open the file and save! I'd prefer in-place creation. The world's best feature, once you're addicted to it.
Cmd-F2 doesn't seem to do anything but beep for me. Is there a list of these shortcuts somewhere? 'Keyboard shortcuts' into help doesn't seem to give anything helpful. Thanks for telling me about Emacs bindings, it'll be create to use Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e for home and end.
Virtue has a habit of randomly switching desktops, just because I've quit/hid/minimised the last window on the desktop, so the Finder's become active. (Among other problems.) Maybe I'll desktop manager.
(I've always used hide, a habit developed back in the days of using classic Macs at school. I wish it was supported on Linux desktops.)
Interestingly, I have no idea what problem Expose is meant to solve. Insufficient eyecandy?
In the poor form of replying to myself, I just want to pre-empt a common comment regarding multi-button mice.
Mac OS X, just like Windows, has functions only available by right (or control) clicking. Try opening a Safari link in a new window. There's also a particular function in the Finder that you need to right-click to find, and I keep losing it because of that.
The Windows Explorer method of creating a new file is accessible via the File menu in any case, I'm just in the habit of left-clicking.
ROX, OTOH, has nothing akin to the file menu, and everything's right-click. This is no harder than learning you can click on the word 'File' for a total newbie, and perhaps easier because a physical button cries out 'Click me!' whereas a word on a screen cries out 'Read me!'. It may be that neither is intuitive, and the ROX method may lose points because it's unique to it and RISC OS, but it still seems easier.
But this is tangential and offtopic, and so I'm moderating me down to begin with. (Or at least, I think it is, the article's being blocked.)
I find just the opposite... When I'm using MacOS X, I have to think way to much about the program at hand. Say I'm browsing a folder and I want to put a file into it... I have to switch from the filer (which is way too much an app rather than a desktop environment) to the text editor, then type, then save, then find the folder in the minifiler if it isn't one of the default folders. I lust for the simplicity of ROX-Filer or even of Windows Explorer where you can just right click and choose 'New text file'!
Also, I haven't found out how you can switch between windows in a single application without using the mouse.
And the absence of virtual desktops... I know there's hacks, but the system isn't designed for it, so it doesn't always work well.
And did I mention the way *some* options things are auto-apply, and *some* are manual? Coming from ROX/GNOME, where everything's auto (unless it's done in a different toolkit, so its obvious) this is painfully annoying. I don't understand what's so special about say iTunes that its view Options are manual apply, but the Finder's are auto.
It's the accursèd menubar---it forces you to design applications, not windows/tasks/activities.
Of course, I have adapted quite well to some things. I now always remember to chose Copy when I want to Copy something, rather than expecting it to be done automatically. I've also stopped trying to get windws to shade rather than minimise.
I find OS X forces me to focus on how I'm doing something, rather than what I'm doing. OS X isn't the be-all end-all of usability, just one inconsistently-followed schema.
# Unlike desktops, tabs have visible names dynamically adjusted to the content they display.
Misses the analogy. Desktops can have taskbars, which perform the same purpose as the tabbar, with visible names dynamically adjusted to the content they display. Desktops are equivalent to the window; the windows are the tabs.
Second point's a hit.
Tabs are automatically configured to group similar tasks (be it the same application or not) while desktops are manually configured on a per-window basis.
Sorry, I don't get this one. I can open a link in a new tab, or I can open it in a new window, but I can't open it in a new tab on an old window. With desktops, I can open a link in a new window on the same desktop, and then I can either leave it there or move it to another (potentially new, depending on your WM configuration) desktop. They both seem to have their trade-offs and I wouldn't say either was superior to the other in this regard.
In any case, tabs can't be implemented at the desktop level... the furthest you can get is the library level, and there the application still needs to know about them. I don't see why the OP was whingeing about KDE/MS not including them at the desktop level. But I didn't mean to say that desktops were superior to tabs; they perform similar functions in radically different ways, each with their own good points and tradeoffs.
Notice how both the sponsering Senators were Republicans.* Bush is a Republican and US President. It seems reasonable to use Bush as a synonym for the Republicans.
* One comment regarding this is that as an Australian, I find it amazing how many bills etc. are sponsored by Democrats and Republicans---in Australia, such behavior would probably find you without party support at the next election!
GPL will always stick around, because there are some of us who view the GPL as MORE free: someone can use a derivative work and know there'll be no unexpected limitations on what they can do with it.
It'd be nice if there was something like the Creative Commons licence selector for free licences. So for instance, you'd get a handful of options:
Would you like this copylefted? (Full, restricted, none)
How do you want to deal with patents? (---)
with a couple of others. Then, the OSI would say: 'Thanks! You've chosen the Full Copylefted, Unlimited Royalty-Free Open Source Licence.', which just so happens to be precisely compatible with the GPL, or the 'Thanks! You've chosen the Partially Copylefted, Mutally-Terminating-On-Patent-Action Open Source Licence.', which just so happens to be precisely compatible with ____.
If they then decertify all other current 'open source' licences, including the GPL, you get numerous benefits: Open Source returns to being obviously a trademark. Licences become easier to digest, because there's the simple 'human readable' form which gives you the gist. Fewer licences will be created because Sun doesn't need to pull out their hair worrying about whether using a licence created by a competitor will hurt their bottom line. Various others have popped through my head but come out before I could type them...
Umm.. KDE already has a very general-purpose long-sighted approach to grouping windows. Obviously, the windows in a group you wish to keep together might not be from the same program. Also, you might want to move the windows around in the same group, rather than having them all be the same size as the group. Of course, KDE didn't invent it; the mechanism is standard to X desktops: virtual desktops.
Yeah, I read at +4 or +5 (with various changes) so I didn't see most of them... only another who recommended cooking. Didn't mean to say anything about you. But my parents have always had this thing about cooking carrots... which, even though they just steam them, makes them way too sweet to go on the dinner table IMHO.
But when I say fresh out of the ground, I don't mean raw from the shop: I mean fresh out of the ground. If you've never tried that, I really do recommend it. Though I s'pose you mightn't like that if you ain't a fan of raw carrot anyway... Same with snowpeas. Nothing beats raw snowpeas straight out of the ground, either. The benefits of having had grandparents who lived on a farm;)
PS: I eat my carrots with VIM, I've done it all my life. It makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on the knife! (I bet you never knew VIM and funny rhymed.)
There is no way of preparing carrots that beat them fresh out of the ground, except washing/peeling them fresh out of the ground. Any adulteration is unacceptable.
If even one scientist is asked (not forced) on one single occasion, that is a huge problem. And you make it seem like it doesn't matter as much because it's happening under both administrations. That only makes the problem worse!
Science is meant to be inpartial and about finding the truth. Anytime someone's asked to change their findings should be considered exactly as bad as bribery.
While I can't see how these compare because the article gives speeds in miles per hour and kilometres per second, but you're giving them in miles per second, I can tell you that they must be wrong. Earth obviously travels through space about as fast as the Sun, in order to maintain its orbit around it.
If Microsoft can convince the majority of major websites to use a webserver that uses DRM-style encryption, the browser wars are over. This is why the DMCA and such things are bad, remember?
TBH, not for more than running Firefox at work to browse the internet during my break. But it's usable enough, isn't it, that my point still stans? and hasn't it been historically more usable than Linux desktops?
Not at all. Objective C++ and Objective C are two different languages. ObjC is a version of C with minimal additions to make it a great object-oriented programming language. ObjC++ is ObjC combined with C++ in the same source code.
Standard GCC can compile ObjC just fine. But because most major gui free webbrowsers (Mozilla and Konq at least) are written in C++, the only ways to write an OpenStep webbrowser are with ObjC++ or by rewriting the entire engine.
Ummm... don't be silly. When you install Firefox onto Windows, it doesn't suddenly become Mozilla/Windows, does it? No! So why should user apps be counted towards the name? GNU/Linux refers to code which provide significant GNU tools to a Unix-like operating environment running on a Linux kernel, such as Glibc, init, binutils etc. etc. A Unix-like operating envirnoment running on a Linux kernel that uses BSD libc, init, binutils equivalents, however, would not be cassed GNU/Linux, even if it ran bash and Gnome.
It's interviews like this recent one that make me think: god, I wish the Hurd was finished, so I don't have to run Linux to run a free operating system. Linus isn't the best spokesman for free software, though people are forever conflating him with it.
Heh, that's like saying the Republicans should make a law stating that only Democrat-approved corporations are allowed to make donations to political parties. But I get your point.
I don't. It probably doesn't occur to a lot of people that just because a bookstore doesn't have something in stock doesn't mean they can't get it on a special order, and it probably also doesn't occur to them that going through Amazon is essentially a special order.
Of course, they may've picked up their game recently. My sister ordered a book via Amazon earlier this week, we'll see how it goes...
It's probably because of the great barrier known as the equator that prevents anything from crossing it, but most of the time I hear people talking of Amazon it's in combination with 'five weeks late'. After an ETA of a month. But I don't imagine they're offering two day shipping to Australia anyway, no matter how much you pay.
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On the other hand, if you already have an existing text file, it is effortless to append or prepend text to it. Take a look at a this.
It's always effortless to append, just open the file and save! I'd prefer in-place creation. The world's best feature, once you're addicted to it.
Cmd-F2 doesn't seem to do anything but beep for me. Is there a list of these shortcuts somewhere? 'Keyboard shortcuts' into help doesn't seem to give anything helpful. Thanks for telling me about Emacs bindings, it'll be create to use Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e for home and end.
Virtue has a habit of randomly switching desktops, just because I've quit/hid/minimised the last window on the desktop, so the Finder's become active. (Among other problems.) Maybe I'll desktop manager.
(I've always used hide, a habit developed back in the days of using classic Macs at school. I wish it was supported on Linux desktops.)
Interestingly, I have no idea what problem Expose is meant to solve. Insufficient eyecandy?
but thanks anyway..
Command+click is no more, and probably less, discoverable than right-clicking.
Thankyou for informing me about command+apostrophe. It isn't exactly the neatest interface, but it does the job.
right click and choose 'New text file'
In the poor form of replying to myself, I just want to pre-empt a common comment regarding multi-button mice.
Mac OS X, just like Windows, has functions only available by right (or control) clicking. Try opening a Safari link in a new window. There's also a particular function in the Finder that you need to right-click to find, and I keep losing it because of that.
The Windows Explorer method of creating a new file is accessible via the File menu in any case, I'm just in the habit of left-clicking.
ROX, OTOH, has nothing akin to the file menu, and everything's right-click. This is no harder than learning you can click on the word 'File' for a total newbie, and perhaps easier because a physical button cries out 'Click me!' whereas a word on a screen cries out 'Read me!'. It may be that neither is intuitive, and the ROX method may lose points because it's unique to it and RISC OS, but it still seems easier.
But this is tangential and offtopic, and so I'm moderating me down to begin with. (Or at least, I think it is, the article's being blocked.)
I find just the opposite... When I'm using MacOS X, I have to think way to much about the program at hand. Say I'm browsing a folder and I want to put a file into it... I have to switch from the filer (which is way too much an app rather than a desktop environment) to the text editor, then type, then save, then find the folder in the minifiler if it isn't one of the default folders. I lust for the simplicity of ROX-Filer or even of Windows Explorer where you can just right click and choose 'New text file'!
Also, I haven't found out how you can switch between windows in a single application without using the mouse.
And the absence of virtual desktops... I know there's hacks, but the system isn't designed for it, so it doesn't always work well.
And did I mention the way *some* options things are auto-apply, and *some* are manual? Coming from ROX/GNOME, where everything's auto (unless it's done in a different toolkit, so its obvious) this is painfully annoying. I don't understand what's so special about say iTunes that its view Options are manual apply, but the Finder's are auto.
It's the accursèd menubar---it forces you to design applications, not windows/tasks/activities.
Of course, I have adapted quite well to some things. I now always remember to chose Copy when I want to Copy something, rather than expecting it to be done automatically. I've also stopped trying to get windws to shade rather than minimise.
I find OS X forces me to focus on how I'm doing something, rather than what I'm doing. OS X isn't the be-all end-all of usability, just one inconsistently-followed schema.
of course, I meant to say 'good conscience'.
Do you mean to say that in good conscious, you can consider child porn to be in the same league as marijuana and alcohol?
# Unlike desktops, tabs have visible names dynamically adjusted to the content they display.
... the furthest you can get is the library level, and there the application still needs to know about them. I don't see why the OP was whingeing about KDE/MS not including them at the desktop level. But I didn't mean to say that desktops were superior to tabs; they perform similar functions in radically different ways, each with their own good points and tradeoffs.
Misses the analogy. Desktops can have taskbars, which perform the same purpose as the tabbar, with visible names dynamically adjusted to the content they display. Desktops are equivalent to the window; the windows are the tabs.
Second point's a hit.
Tabs are automatically configured to group similar tasks (be it the same application or not) while desktops are manually configured on a per-window basis.
Sorry, I don't get this one. I can open a link in a new tab, or I can open it in a new window, but I can't open it in a new tab on an old window. With desktops, I can open a link in a new window on the same desktop, and then I can either leave it there or move it to another (potentially new, depending on your WM configuration) desktop. They both seem to have their trade-offs and I wouldn't say either was superior to the other in this regard.
In any case, tabs can't be implemented at the desktop level
Notice how both the sponsering Senators were Republicans.* Bush is a Republican and US President. It seems reasonable to use Bush as a synonym for the Republicans.
* One comment regarding this is that as an Australian, I find it amazing how many bills etc. are sponsored by Democrats and Republicans---in Australia, such behavior would probably find you without party support at the next election!
GPL will always stick around, because there are some of us who view the GPL as MORE free: someone can use a derivative work and know there'll be no unexpected limitations on what they can do with it.
Oh shit. Opinions aren't facts!
with a couple of others. Then, the OSI would say: 'Thanks! You've chosen the Full Copylefted, Unlimited Royalty-Free Open Source Licence.', which just so happens to be precisely compatible with the GPL, or the 'Thanks! You've chosen the Partially Copylefted, Mutally-Terminating-On-Patent-Action Open Source Licence.', which just so happens to be precisely compatible with ____.
If they then decertify all other current 'open source' licences, including the GPL, you get numerous benefits: Open Source returns to being obviously a trademark. Licences become easier to digest, because there's the simple 'human readable' form which gives you the gist. Fewer licences will be created because Sun doesn't need to pull out their hair worrying about whether using a licence created by a competitor will hurt their bottom line. Various others have popped through my head but come out before I could type them...
I'd love to see it happen.
Umm.. KDE already has a very general-purpose long-sighted approach to grouping windows. Obviously, the windows in a group you wish to keep together might not be from the same program. Also, you might want to move the windows around in the same group, rather than having them all be the same size as the group. Of course, KDE didn't invent it; the mechanism is standard to X desktops: virtual desktops.
Opera did not and still does not have tabs. It has a dual SDI/MDI interface with its own taskbar, but that does not amount to tabs.
Yeah, I read at +4 or +5 (with various changes) so I didn't see most of them ... only another who recommended cooking. Didn't mean to say anything about you. But my parents have always had this thing about cooking carrots ... which, even though they just steam them, makes them way too sweet to go on the dinner table IMHO.
;)
But when I say fresh out of the ground, I don't mean raw from the shop: I mean fresh out of the ground. If you've never tried that, I really do recommend it. Though I s'pose you mightn't like that if you ain't a fan of raw carrot anyway... Same with snowpeas. Nothing beats raw snowpeas straight out of the ground, either. The benefits of having had grandparents who lived on a farm
PS: I eat my carrots with VIM, I've done it all my life. It makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on the knife! (I bet you never knew VIM and funny rhymed.)
There is no way of preparing carrots that beat them fresh out of the ground, except washing/peeling them fresh out of the ground. Any adulteration is unacceptable.
If even one scientist is asked (not forced) on one single occasion, that is a huge problem. And you make it seem like it doesn't matter as much because it's happening under both administrations. That only makes the problem worse!
Science is meant to be inpartial and about finding the truth. Anytime someone's asked to change their findings should be considered exactly as bad as bribery.
While I can't see how these compare because the article gives speeds in miles per hour and kilometres per second, but you're giving them in miles per second, I can tell you that they must be wrong. Earth obviously travels through space about as fast as the Sun, in order to maintain its orbit around it.
If Microsoft can convince the majority of major websites to use a webserver that uses DRM-style encryption, the browser wars are over. This is why the DMCA and such things are bad, remember?
TBH, not for more than running Firefox at work to browse the internet during my break. But it's usable enough, isn't it, that my point still stans? and hasn't it been historically more usable than Linux desktops?
Well yeah, but then we may as well abandon Gnome and KDE too: There's a perfectly good and usable GUI out there called Microsoft Windows.
Not at all. Objective C++ and Objective C are two different languages. ObjC is a version of C with minimal additions to make it a great object-oriented programming language. ObjC++ is ObjC combined with C++ in the same source code.
Standard GCC can compile ObjC just fine. But because most major gui free webbrowsers (Mozilla and Konq at least) are written in C++, the only ways to write an OpenStep webbrowser are with ObjC++ or by rewriting the entire engine.
Ummm... don't be silly. When you install Firefox onto Windows, it doesn't suddenly become Mozilla/Windows, does it? No! So why should user apps be counted towards the name? GNU/Linux refers to code which provide significant GNU tools to a Unix-like operating environment running on a Linux kernel, such as Glibc, init, binutils etc. etc. A Unix-like operating envirnoment running on a Linux kernel that uses BSD libc, init, binutils equivalents, however, would not be cassed GNU/Linux, even if it ran bash and Gnome.
It's interviews like this recent one that make me think: god, I wish the Hurd was finished, so I don't have to run Linux to run a free operating system. Linus isn't the best spokesman for free software, though people are forever conflating him with it.
Heh, that's like saying the Republicans should make a law stating that only Democrat-approved corporations are allowed to make donations to political parties. But I get your point.
I don't. It probably doesn't occur to a lot of people that just because a bookstore doesn't have something in stock doesn't mean they can't get it on a special order, and it probably also doesn't occur to them that going through Amazon is essentially a special order.
Of course, they may've picked up their game recently. My sister ordered a book via Amazon earlier this week, we'll see how it goes...
It's probably because of the great barrier known as the equator that prevents anything from crossing it, but most of the time I hear people talking of Amazon it's in combination with 'five weeks late'. After an ETA of a month. But I don't imagine they're offering two day shipping to Australia anyway, no matter how much you pay.