Thank you for making QT/Win32 GPL'ed! Now I finally have a quality toolkit for creating cross-platform open source applications. I'm very grateful. Thanks for your support.
But it's practically the same as MacOS X's file selector. And as long as people praise MacOS's file selector, GNOME's file selector is immune to criticism.
"But why the hell don't all the multitude "file open dialog" designers on Linux just get their shit together and see how the Windows common dialogue does it ?"
"Sorry but it's now 2005 and Gnome is STILL farting about trying to get a decent file open dialog. It's no wonder that Microsoft, despite all their myriad, well publicised faults, remains king of the desktop."
Is the MacOS X file dialog decent? Of course it is, everybody on Slashdot praises MacOS X. The GNOME file dialog is 99% identical to the OS X file dialog!
Yeah, bad recognition. These days, almost nobody knows Netscape. Those who still know remember Netscape as a piece of buggy, unstable and sucky software. Using the Netscape brand will only do harm!
The problem is, many VB programmers (especially the tons of 13 year olds!) don't get past the "OMG I can code lolololololololol!"-stage. For example, take a look at the horrible user interfaces of Revemu, ApezBot, etc.
Come on, what do you expect from volunteer software? It's no different than all those closed source Win32 freeware programs that disappear after a while.
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That's like saying Linux is a Unix emulator. Or that Internet Explorer is an NSA Mosaic emulator.
That's as valid as "Linux is ready for the desktop". Until you Slashdotters accept that Linux is ready for the desktop and stop trolling, Windows will never be ready for the cluster!
"*Windowing subsystems that network, but cant handle 3d networked graphics effectively, or support the more advanced hardware features of graphics chips locally particulaly well."
Mailing lists are widely used by open source projects, like GNOME and KDE. Apparently almost nobody at Slashdot has ever heard of mailing lists. This just proofs Slashdot has become an anti-Linux site.
What the... is Slashdot on crack? Has nobody here ever heard of open source project mailing lists? Ever heard of GNU Mailman? Legitimate uses of mailing lists are right in front of your nose!
"X didn't even support easy thing as hardware window transparency or shadows as of recently when it came with X.org 6.8 but yet isn't use by most major apps, even Windows ME could do such simple things."
So? X can do it now. Your point is moot. Time ain't gonna flow backwards, buddy.
? Gimp's user interface has only become better compared to a few years ago.
First, people massively whine about not having a toplevel menu bar. And now that Gimp DOES have a toplevel menubar (which is even enabled by default), people STILL whine.
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You just said it yourself: recent version. Now try supporting the old compilers that are still in use.
They use their own containers because there are so many crappy compilers out there with broken STL.
Thank you for making QT/Win32 GPL'ed! Now I finally have a quality toolkit for creating cross-platform open source applications. I'm very grateful. Thanks for your support.
"Bill Gates is closer to Scrooge McDuck than any person in history."
Until Bill Gates learns how to swim in money, he's nowhere near Scrooge McDuck.
But it's practically the same as MacOS X's file selector. And as long as people praise MacOS's file selector, GNOME's file selector is immune to criticism.
"But why the hell don't all the multitude "file open dialog" designers on Linux just get their shit together and see how the Windows common dialogue does it ?"
Because it's in the User Interface Hall of Shame.
"Sorry but it's now 2005 and Gnome is STILL farting about trying to get a decent file open dialog. It's no wonder that Microsoft, despite all their myriad, well publicised faults, remains king of the desktop."
Is the MacOS X file dialog decent? Of course it is, everybody on Slashdot praises MacOS X. The GNOME file dialog is 99% identical to the OS X file dialog!
Yeah, bad recognition. These days, almost nobody knows Netscape. Those who still know remember Netscape as a piece of buggy, unstable and sucky software. Using the Netscape brand will only do harm!
You are probably looking at suprnova.org or .net. Those are scammers. They're NOT suprnova, they just pretend to be.
Yeah, like non-OSS people never say that kind of things. Why you automatically associate that question with "OSS advocates" is beyond me.
"It's the "if it's cheap, it must not be good" mentality that really does apply to CAD software..."
No problem. I'd be happy to sell this software for $3000 per copy.
Everybody should know that the behavior "foo = bar++" is undefined, depends on the compiler, and thus shouldn't ever be written.
The problem is, many VB programmers (especially the tons of 13 year olds!) don't get past the "OMG I can code lolololololololol!"-stage. For example, take a look at the horrible user interfaces of Revemu, ApezBot, etc.
You expect that all open source software are comparable commercial software, and can be analyzed like commercial software.
Come on, what do you expect from volunteer software? It's no different than all those closed source Win32 freeware programs that disappear after a while.
That's like saying Linux is a Unix emulator. Or that Internet Explorer is an NSA Mosaic emulator.
That's as valid as "Linux is ready for the desktop". Until you Slashdotters accept that Linux is ready for the desktop and stop trolling, Windows will never be ready for the cluster!
In other words: Windows is not ready for the cluster!
"*Windowing subsystems that network, but cant handle 3d networked graphics effectively, or support the more advanced hardware features of graphics chips locally particulaly well."
OpenGL is network transparent.
Mailing lists are widely used by open source projects, like GNOME and KDE. Apparently almost nobody at Slashdot has ever heard of mailing lists. This just proofs Slashdot has become an anti-Linux site.
What the... is Slashdot on crack? Has nobody here ever heard of open source project mailing lists? Ever heard of GNU Mailman? Legitimate uses of mailing lists are right in front of your nose!
So you wouldn't mind 18th-century conditions? Working for 12-14 hours a day?
"Actually, man, it will. Starting April 13. 2029."
http://www.freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/
You are either dumb or you are lying. Probably the latter.
"X didn't even support easy thing as hardware window transparency or shadows as of recently when it came with X.org 6.8 but yet isn't use by most major apps, even Windows ME could do such simple things."
So? X can do it now. Your point is moot. Time ain't gonna flow backwards, buddy.
"you're stating that Photoshop also doesn't have a steep learning curve. It doesn't?"
Then how about all those Slashdotters who claim Photoshop can be used by grandma?
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Gimp's user interface has only become better compared to a few years ago.
First, people massively whine about not having a toplevel menu bar. And now that Gimp DOES have a toplevel menubar (which is even enabled by default), people STILL whine.