Re:Whose task is copy&paste
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No, new as in hasn't been in development very long. It's nothing to do with date.
Re:Whose task is copy&paste
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I already have several patches in KDE (KImageEffect module). I also run my own free software project which is currently at around 14,000 lines of code, 99% of which is my own work, with around 2,500 downloads/month.
Re:Whose task is copy&paste
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Because kolourpaint is a pretty new application, so features like that aren't implemented yet. Are you offering to send them a patch if it's so easy?
Well, this exploit seems to rely on using an exploit to run arbitrary code as administrator on your machine. If an attacker can do that, you're pretty much screwed anyway. The attacker could turn your firewall off, disable anti virus and print out three hundred copies of "Catcher in the Rye" if he wanted to.
Re:Compositing
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Things like translucent error dialogs (see Jef Raskin's book), Expose, any oddly shaped app that you want to see the background through the gaps in (like the Dock).
It isn't just the ability to draw translucent windows. By rendering to an offscreen buffer and then compositing on the screen, you can do all sorts of transformations and effects that make the desktop easier to use. Apple's Expose effect is probably the best example.
Re:Whose task is copy&paste
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Copy and paste works fine for me (in KDE3.3, openoffice 1.1.2). I can copy part of a drawing in Kolourpaint and paste it into KWord or Openoffice and it appears as an image in the document. It doesn't seem to take notice of circular selections, but that's hardly surprising.
It seems that the GIMP just doesn't support this yet.
Yes, fag means cigarette. Although some people use it as a derogatory term for gay people too (like the US), so I'm not sure anyone would actually say "I'm going to go suck a fag, you want to come?" as some people might take it the wrong way...
That's not testing usability, that's testing learnability. While that's an important attribute, for an application people spend a lot of time using (e.g. Photoshop-like apps), speed of use for a more experienced user is more important. After all, if your app is any good, people are going to spend much more time as intermediate/experienced users than as beginners.
I've had the same problem. A new Slack-10 install on a reiserfs partition locked up when I started X with the wrong configuration. I hit reset, booted up and suddenly KDE complains that half its configuration files are corrupt, despite fsck saying everything was fine.
"Hire experts", "spend 10% of budget", "buy out companies"?
How do OSS projects go about doing that? 10% of nothing is nothing, and projects can't hire anybody, they can only accept volunteers. If only programmers volunteer, they have to get by without the UI people.
I am sure many of the larger OSS projects would be only too glad to have some usability experts onboard - I know that KDE is looking for that kind of input right now.
I agree, it does look more interesting than most MMOGs, but there isn't exactly a lot of competition in the interest stakes, is there. It was just such a silly quote I had to take the mickey. Someone should invent a reverse-Turing test for games - if it's impossible to distinguish between a human player and a macro in the game, the game's no good.
Re:How about using books that don't suck
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Steinbeck dreary! The school system must have really beaten the fun out of that one for you. I went on to read most of his work after studying it back then. I remember loving to kill a mocking bird when I read it as a kid, but if it's mixed in with Hemingway I can see why people would get bored.
Re:How about using books that don't suck
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Just what kind of books do they make you read? The ones I remember from my days in GCSE Eng. Lit. (exams in the UK at 16) were:
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck Empire of the Sun - Ballard 1984 - Orwell Henry V - Shakespeare
Which were all excellent books. I had some friends who did Eng. Lit. at A-level (16-18) and they read some great books - Frankenstein, A Child in Time (Ian McEwan) for example. I think some had to read Dickens, but you can't have everything.
Here in the UK, degree courses are much more focused: computer scientists study purely computing, with no additional requirements for three or four years. Some courses offer electives, so that you can choose to study outside your main area a little.
Personally, I was glad of the opportunity to do a few humanities electives in the final two years of my engineering degree, even though they required more work than the equivalent engineering courses would have. In day-to-day life, the elective subjects (politics, economics) are far more useful than distillation column design.
Isn't it strange that all the posts making this point are badly written and badly spelt? Just by making the post the question they pose is answered.
Just in case the poster doesn't get it: being made to read a book, think critically about it and then write a paper about it develops useful skills that you don't learn studying chemistry. It also helps to prevent "boring scientist" syndrome.
My favourite two were during my undergrad engineering degree
- One girl got so carried away copying somebody else's problem sheet answers she copied the name off the top as well and handed it in with the other girl's name on it - For another problem sheet, several of the questions had been changed from the previous year's version. About 25% of the year still copied verbatim the answers from papers they got from people in the year above us, without even checking the questions.
These people are probably running an oil refinery near you right now. Be afraid.
I think you're confused about what a Windowing System is. The windowing system is just the part that handles the drawing of client apps to the screen and moving them around, nothing else.
For instance, I'd love for there to be an easy to use clipboard stack, that could hold as many clips as there was diskspace, and an interface to help maintain it.
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No, new as in hasn't been in development very long. It's nothing to do with date.
I already have several patches in KDE (KImageEffect module). I also run my own free software project which is currently at around 14,000 lines of code, 99% of which is my own work, with around 2,500 downloads/month.
Because kolourpaint is a pretty new application, so features like that aren't implemented yet. Are you offering to send them a patch if it's so easy?
Well, this exploit seems to rely on using an exploit to run arbitrary code as administrator on your machine. If an attacker can do that, you're pretty much screwed anyway. The attacker could turn your firewall off, disable anti virus and print out three hundred copies of "Catcher in the Rye" if he wanted to.
Things like translucent error dialogs (see Jef Raskin's book), Expose, any oddly shaped app that you want to see the background through the gaps in (like the Dock).
It isn't just the ability to draw translucent windows. By rendering to an offscreen buffer and then compositing on the screen, you can do all sorts of transformations and effects that make the desktop easier to use. Apple's Expose effect is probably the best example.
Copy and paste works fine for me (in KDE3.3, openoffice 1.1.2). I can copy part of a drawing in Kolourpaint and paste it into KWord or Openoffice and it appears as an image in the document. It doesn't seem to take notice of circular selections, but that's hardly surprising.
It seems that the GIMP just doesn't support this yet.
Yes, fag means cigarette. Although some people use it as a derogatory term for gay people too (like the US), so I'm not sure anyone would actually say "I'm going to go suck a fag, you want to come?" as some people might take it the wrong way...
your product's end-users
Oh yeah, missed that bit.
I think Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Use Smooth scrolling should make Firefox scrolling more like IE's.
That's not testing usability, that's testing learnability. While that's an important attribute, for an application people spend a lot of time using (e.g. Photoshop-like apps), speed of use for a more experienced user is more important. After all, if your app is any good, people are going to spend much more time as intermediate/experienced users than as beginners.
I've had the same problem. A new Slack-10 install on a reiserfs partition locked up when I started X with the wrong configuration. I hit reset, booted up and suddenly KDE complains that half its configuration files are corrupt, despite fsck saying everything was fine.
"Hire experts", "spend 10% of budget", "buy out companies"?
How do OSS projects go about doing that? 10% of nothing is nothing, and projects can't hire anybody, they can only accept volunteers. If only programmers volunteer, they have to get by without the UI people.
I am sure many of the larger OSS projects would be only too glad to have some usability experts onboard - I know that KDE is looking for that kind of input right now.
Did you read the article? Do you read at all? Even the US government is recommending against using IE for security reasons.
I agree, it does look more interesting than most MMOGs, but there isn't exactly a lot of competition in the interest stakes, is there. It was just such a silly quote I had to take the mickey.
Someone should invent a reverse-Turing test for games - if it's impossible to distinguish between a human player and a macro in the game, the game's no good.
Steinbeck dreary! The school system must have really beaten the fun out of that one for you. I went on to read most of his work after studying it back then. I remember loving to kill a mocking bird when I read it as a kid, but if it's mixed in with Hemingway I can see why people would get bored.
Just what kind of books do they make you read? The ones I remember from my days in GCSE Eng. Lit. (exams in the UK at 16) were:
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Empire of the Sun - Ballard
1984 - Orwell
Henry V - Shakespeare
Which were all excellent books. I had some friends who did Eng. Lit. at A-level (16-18) and they read some great books - Frankenstein, A Child in Time (Ian McEwan) for example. I think some had to read Dickens, but you can't have everything.
Collecting wood is a simple as clicking on a tree, then waiting 60 seconds for the wood to respawn.
What fun! That's definitely worth $13.95/month. I can't wait for the "paint drying" mod.
Here in the UK, degree courses are much more focused: computer scientists study purely computing, with no additional requirements for three or four years. Some courses offer electives, so that you can choose to study outside your main area a little.
Personally, I was glad of the opportunity to do a few humanities electives in the final two years of my engineering degree, even though they required more work than the equivalent engineering courses would have. In day-to-day life, the elective subjects (politics, economics) are far more useful than distillation column design.
>How would it help them later in life?
Isn't it strange that all the posts making this point are badly written and badly spelt? Just by making the post the question they pose is answered.
Just in case the poster doesn't get it: being made to read a book, think critically about it and then write a paper about it develops useful skills that you don't learn studying chemistry. It also helps to prevent "boring scientist" syndrome.
My favourite two were during my undergrad engineering degree
- One girl got so carried away copying somebody else's problem sheet answers she copied the name off the top as well and handed it in with the other girl's name on it
- For another problem sheet, several of the questions had been changed from the previous year's version. About 25% of the year still copied verbatim the answers from papers they got from people in the year above us, without even checking the questions.
These people are probably running an oil refinery near you right now. Be afraid.
Like SuSE's failsafe mode, you mean? It's right there in the default Grub menu.
Maybe it's harder on MacOS then? I just selected gimp from the list of software, clicked install and there it was (SUSE 9.1). Same with most software.
You need a system tray running - it looks like this.
I think you're confused about what a Windowing System is. The windowing system is just the part that handles the drawing of client apps to the screen and moving them around, nothing else.
For instance, I'd love for there to be an easy to use clipboard stack, that could hold as many clips as there was diskspace, and an interface to help maintain it.
Isn't that exactly what Klipper does?