Right, but it's a lot more cases you have to handle in code to deal with the conflict between user-set sizes and app-set sizes.
Sympathize all you want, but it's no harm to them if the users can resize a window, like I said it breaks nothing by doing it. It's pedantry and that's all it is.
but the more "optional" features you have, the more code and effort it takes to support them.
To make a window nonresizeable in GTK+, you have to explicitly set it that way. It is one extra line of code to take to take that ability away from the user. It is less code to leave it resizeable.
Seriously though. Pidgin and its predecessor Gaim are forked every 6 months or so. It's what happens when developers enforce their petty "HIG guidelines" over common sense. Someone please tell me why it is necessary to forbid the user from resizing a window or widget that was previously resizeable. The preferences window is another one. There's no reason at all that they had to set it as nonresizeable, and occasionally it pisses me off enough to port my patch (which comments one line of code) to the latest version so that I can resize it again. It breaks nothing by doing it.
It's things like this (Nautilus shot) that really should never ever ever be done in the name of "usability".
If you bash vista it's because you haven't used it, you're a slow slow learner, or you've used it but hate microsoft so much that you didn't actually give it a chance.
Or maybe you are just so amazed that a driver doesn't exist for a popular card like the Soundblaster Live, that you decide Vista is a piece of shit and not worthy of being installed.
Sorry for my crappy English. I've been lurking around here in Slashdot for a long time now, way before I even created my account, but I tend to stay out of the discussions because of my lacking English writing skills, but this was something I think needed correction / another experience.
Don't let that stop you. Many people here speak English fine, but make no sense at all.
You can hate the idea of God. It's offensive to me that we should worship a wrathful dictator, especially a fictional one who occasionally relays his wishes through a select few.
If you're running Maya, would should be running the drivers/distro that Autodesk blesses. Last I checked, that was 2-3 year old drivers on RHEL 4/SLES 9/Fedora Core 5.
That doesn't explain why it worked fine 6 months ago, but doesn't now.
Blender does the same thing (yes I got that annoyed)
the past few drivers had been getting better and better, but this one broke about half my 3D apps.
Same here. I can use Maya for 5 or 10 minutes, and then X goes nuts. I can move the mouse, but can't click on, or type anything. I have to ssh in and kill the X process.
I got a nVidia card to make Maya easier to work with. Time to end this experiment I think.
As much as I would have liked to see the Superbowl ads, having a regular feed during the rest of the year would confuse the targetted viewers of those ads.
It's not like we aren't used to seeing U.S. advertising. Anything that isn't being simulcast on a Canadian network shows ads from the U.S.
I mean, Satan is depicted as putting money, power, wealth, women, and other temptations in front of Christians to tempt them from their path. He's also depicted as regularly succeeding.
I never understood that. Satan is supposed to be the bad guy, but in the bible he doesn't really do all that much. God is the one inflicting all the wrath. The locusts and whatnot. The killing of everything except the fish and the lucky ones on the boat..
You're right, it's a shitty analogy. Microsoft really is evil.
And you don't have to fork it to get what you want. Now you can go collaborate with another group who wants what you do. Now you don't have to maintain it by yourself like you said. If your idea is a good one, it will overtake the Gimp as people see that it works better.
Gimp has many such fundamental problems, such as the choices made in interface design. It's not a case where all they need is some help developing, it's definite choices they have made which conflict with what some people want.
Which is exactly why Gimpshop exists. This isn't a failure of Gimp to meet everybody's demands. This is a feature of open source that allows a minority of users to have their way without pissing the rest of us off.
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No this is Debian.
Funny, I said the same thing last time I was in L.A.
Sympathize all you want, but it's no harm to them if the users can resize a window, like I said it breaks nothing by doing it. It's pedantry and that's all it is.
To make a window nonresizeable in GTK+, you have to explicitly set it that way. It is one extra line of code to take to take that ability away from the user. It is less code to leave it resizeable.
Seriously though. Pidgin and its predecessor Gaim are forked every 6 months or so. It's what happens when developers enforce their petty "HIG guidelines" over common sense. Someone please tell me why it is necessary to forbid the user from resizing a window or widget that was previously resizeable. The preferences window is another one. There's no reason at all that they had to set it as nonresizeable, and occasionally it pisses me off enough to port my patch (which comments one line of code) to the latest version so that I can resize it again. It breaks nothing by doing it.
It's things like this (Nautilus shot) that really should never ever ever be done in the name of "usability".
In the sub-arctic the growing season is about 2 to 3 months of the year and very limited in what will grow there.
Or maybe you are just so amazed that a driver doesn't exist for a popular card like the Soundblaster Live, that you decide Vista is a piece of shit and not worthy of being installed.
Don't let that stop you. Many people here speak English fine, but make no sense at all.
Why are you installing if you have a previous version of Ubuntu installed already? Change your repo's and apt-get dist-upgrade.
There's even an easy way.
If God is the one making the rules, then he's on top. If not, the whole thing is a scam.
You might remember some events in Germany's past that sound much worse than this one.
You can hate the idea of God. It's offensive to me that we should worship a wrathful dictator, especially a fictional one who occasionally relays his wishes through a select few.
It's pretty tough to be anonymous without one.
These people are capable of anything. Look what they did to Tom
Watch the code of conduct video before going to protest please.
Scarves are better than masks.
That doesn't explain why it worked fine 6 months ago, but doesn't now.
Blender does the same thing (yes I got that annoyed)
Same here. I can use Maya for 5 or 10 minutes, and then X goes nuts. I can move the mouse, but can't click on, or type anything. I have to ssh in and kill the X process.
I got a nVidia card to make Maya easier to work with. Time to end this experiment I think.
I find it absolutely hilarious when Americans get all upset about other countries not following trade agreements.
What goes around comes around.
It's not like we aren't used to seeing U.S. advertising. Anything that isn't being simulcast on a Canadian network shows ads from the U.S.
I think it's pretty quick. It takes a fraction of a second to scale the page.
I would add to that list:
- Ctrl-MouseWheel zooming scales the images as well so the pages look normal without text overlapping the graphics
That feature alone is worth upgrading for.
Maybe it's time to get into the replicator business then.
I never understood that. Satan is supposed to be the bad guy, but in the bible he doesn't really do all that much. God is the one inflicting all the wrath. The locusts and whatnot. The killing of everything except the fish and the lucky ones on the boat..
You're right, it's a shitty analogy. Microsoft really is evil.
And you don't have to fork it to get what you want. Now you can go collaborate with another group who wants what you do. Now you don't have to maintain it by yourself like you said. If your idea is a good one, it will overtake the Gimp as people see that it works better.
Highly unlikely, but possible.
Which is exactly why Gimpshop exists. This isn't a failure of Gimp to meet everybody's demands. This is a feature of open source that allows a minority of users to have their way without pissing the rest of us off.
Exactly. The proprietary software development model is flawed. Good software means open software.