Sorry I messed up my posting, it was meant to read:
How to manage a bumbling foreign policy -accomplished-
How to ruin a flourishing economy -in progress-
which makes more sense unless you believe that Bushs economy 101 (Stagnation? Tax cuts for Halliburton! Ludicrous deficit? Tax cuts for Halliburton! Tax cuts not working? More tax cuts for Halliburton! etc) will help =)
No but as implicated in my posting I don't have the taskbar always on top of the other windows. In KDE you can have your panels appear when you move the mouse to a corner of your desktop, the top right one for the taskbar and the lower left for the main panel in my case. I assume that you should be able to achieve a similar behaviour with GNOME
Re:Still major usability issues...
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Actually I think that's stupid (let the flame wars begin =)
I normally have a great number of windows open. As most start their entry in the taskbar with the application name and then the content of the application I normally can't read which specific instance of an application that button means (the entry would look something like this: "Galeo...") Therefore I think it's better for instances of the same program to be as far apart as possible because that way it's easier to remember which one you wanted. (actually I solved the problem by having the taskbar on the side and rather wide but I know a lot of people who don't want their taskbar hidden by other windows and therefore can't do it this way)
Unlike some other browsers, in Epiphany you will not find half a dozen ways to use tabs and manage cookies and bookmarks, as Epiphany is targeted towards the average user.
And IMHO that's the wrong approach. *Especially* for the less technically inclined it would be better to have as many different ways as possible to do something. If you look at usability studies they always say how the test persons all tried different things to do the required task and how half of them got stuck on the way and didn't know what to do. One thing Windows gets right is that there is always more than one way to reach your goal. (e.g. you can adjust the time by double clicking on the clock, by using the context menu of the clock, by using the control panel etc.)
Having one elegant solution is nice and appeals to the mathematician in us all but if you look at speech there are many different ways to express a thought, perhaps one is more elegant than the others but all may be correct and logical. (to go back to the clock example: user A thinks "I want to change the time, that should be possible by doing something with the clock thingy" but in user B's opinion it's "I want to change a setting, it should be in the control panel")
IMHO, GUIs should try to enable users to do things their way and therefore it's better to have as many approaches as possible for a task
You are aware that almost all useable browsers have an option to ignore the MIME-type and to rely on the extension because the MIME-type is rubbish as often as not?
Well, this "space jeep" isn't more advanced, it's less advanced.
The goal is not to develop new technologies for this thing which doesn't mean they'll use stuff from the 70s.
Despite different upgrades the basic space shuttle design is over 20 years old; the best and most expensive vcr from 20 years ago still won't come close to my $100 2001 model
it generally works if both are of the same toolkit and often if they're not where copy and then paste is less reliable than selecting and middle-click.
I can c&p just fine when using only KDE and GTK apps but I can't c&p from Eterm to KDE apps, I have to select, middle-click in a GTK app and then proceed normally.
so you switch it back to classic and as soon as your Joe Average clicks on start he is lost because the start menu looked different back in (Windows)95.
There's no need to rack your brain over learning and remembering every different command in different programs, if they follow a consistent, organized, and intuitive pattern. That's why themes aren't built into the OS or even encouraged
Talking about a non sequitur.
The important thing is *consistency*. All apps should behave the same way as much as possible (the same tasks in the menu bar in the same position, consistent dialogs etc.) but if I like my desktop to be different from the way Apple thought it would be best why shouldn't that be possible?
I don't like that fanboyish "all worship the mighty Apple HIGs" because Apple breaks and changes them just as they like (*cough* brushed metal style *cough* which is rather cool but from a usability point much worse than the standard style).
The alternative would be what? A small flashing light in the right lower corner of the cockpit? I don't see why engineers in the future (assuming they have to build small manned space fighters of course =) shouldn't use sound effects to reduce the information overflow for the eyes, especially as our ears are adapted to locate the direction of a sound with astonishing accuracy
The best page on voting machine fraud I know you can find here.
I don't know how accurate it is but they have extensive quotes from newspapers (not the normal, nearly mythical "sources" they mention =) about astonishing discrepancies between polls days before the elections and the elections themselves.
A very convincing article about why a paper trail and verification of results with machines from different vendors or -even better- open source voting machines must be required for elections
And if you look at those stupid interface studies that supposedly compare XP to KDE, you'll notice that most of them study near-illiterate users.
Yes. Because they study *real-life* scenarios. Corporate desktops with near-computer-illiterate mid-50s who know a bit about PCs, enough to do their work but are in trouble as soon as they accidently drag their taskbar to the left screen-side.
Face it, most users don't know anything about their PC, and are happy that way and I have no troubles with studies that focus on them nor with an OS *designed* for them.
But I *have* troubles with the stuff MS does in the name of simplicity. It ranges from pure stupidity (One of the problems in the last KDE/XP study was that most people didn't know that directories and folders are the same thing. Question, why rename directories to folders in the first place) to lunacy (how many worms, viri and other stuff would have died unspectacular if MS hadn't had the brilliant idea of hiding file extensions)
You may have heard different. You may have heard that Apple fudged the numbers, cheated on the benchmarks, that the Pentium is faster after all, and that Steve Jobs lied to us. I?m here to tell you it?s an ugly urban legend, repeated by an all-too-predictable ?geek chorus? of fools and liars, in a blind panic over the fact that Apple ships faster boxes than Alienware, repeated by those who have an agenda against Apple and an investment in slow, legacy x86 processors.
[Macedition Information Minister]
I tell you there are no processors faster than the G5; the execs of Intel and AMD commit suicide outside of apple shop. They build cpus only to destroy them because they are dog-shit. Long live Apple. Long live Steve Jobs
[/Macedition Information Minister]
Sorry but pages like that make/. look impartial on the Windows/Linux issue
the problem is the difference in scale of small and big bombs
When the Army introduced the successor of the daisy cutter you often heard that it's "as powerful as a small nuclear weapon", well this conventional bomb - the largest you'll find by far - has an explosive power of perhaps 50tons (it weighs thirty and I'm assuming they use something more effective than TNT). 100 of these bombs have an explosive power of 5kt, half of the Hiroshima bomb and at the lower end of what you'd expect in a nuclear artillery shell.
1 *big* bomb would have something in the range of dozens of megatons upwards and would be 1000times more devastating than 100 of the biggest conventional bomb and I'm not even talking about nuclear fallout. An average conventional bomb is 1'000'000 times weaker than an average nuclear weapon and that's why keeping the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear clear is so important.
That's also the reason I don't like all that WMD talk because chemical and biological weapons are nowhere near the destructive power of nuclear weapons and treating them as the same thing is quite dangerous and utterly idiotic from a danger-analysis point of view which is why you bombed the hell out of Saddam and try sweet-talking (or what W takes for it) Kim
Then listen to all the friendly people here and try xine =)
Ogle is simply outdated and MPlayer's got neither the menu support nor the user interface (it's a brilliant player for simply playing files on your hd but it's not suited for the complexity -titles/chapters/audiotracks/subtitletracks/angles - of DVDs)
1. Oh *that's* intuitive - I know it took quite some time till I found lsof
2. what if you don't want to kill that app? Often you're already browsing a completely different directory or -in case of Konqueror instead of Nautilus- you have a number of additional tabs open.
funny, I use Linux exclusively for DVDs, nothing beats xine's performance/picture quality, especially the deinterlacing of the Windows apps I know doesn't come close to xine's linear blend
Both KDE and GTK are just too popular so you won't see one of them vanish.
KDE has made great progress in terms of applications (the traditional stronghold of gtk) just as Gnome has made progress in terms of integration and desktop/filemanager (were KDE has been better)
And though I don't like gnome2 I'm realist enough to tell you that both will still be there in 3 or 4 years when we're gonna have the same discussion again
Re:Kolab and Kontact, I'm confused.
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I agree that software-mixing is a valid reason for a soundserver but they should focus more on low resource consumption and latency (k, you can fix that with +s on the artswrapper-binary and realtime-priority but the cpu consumption is much too high).
I prefer buying an old SBLive for a few bucks and getting multiple sound-sources in hardware instead of hunting arts-plugins and trying to get an acceptable latency with arts
But Mozilla still lacks crash recovery (not only for crashs but also when you close it, don't know what it's called then); the best thing about opera is that I can have dozens of windows open then close it and when I start it up again it's as if I never ended it; it remembers the tabs, the history of each tab, settings like text size etc.
More often than not that kills the best links because most extensive reviews of/articles about something contain a "where to buy" section, have direct links to a number of shops or have an online-shop themself
I'd really like two buttons for google searches 1. Online-shops yes/no
2. Blogs yes/no
or alternatively both seperate from the main search engine like newsgroups, images,...
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How to manage a bumbling foreign policy -accomplished-
How to ruin a flourishing economy -in progress-
which makes more sense unless you believe that Bushs economy 101 (Stagnation? Tax cuts for Halliburton! Ludicrous deficit? Tax cuts for Halliburton! Tax cuts not working? More tax cuts for Halliburton! etc) will help =)
Current objectives:
How to ruin a flourishing economy -accomplished-
How to manage a bumbling foreign policy; -in progress-
No but as implicated in my posting I don't have the taskbar always on top of the other windows. In KDE you can have your panels appear when you move the mouse to a corner of your desktop, the top right one for the taskbar and the lower left for the main panel in my case. I assume that you should be able to achieve a similar behaviour with GNOME
I normally have a great number of windows open. As most start their entry in the taskbar with the application name and then the content of the application I normally can't read which specific instance of an application that button means (the entry would look something like this: "Galeo...") Therefore I think it's better for instances of the same program to be as far apart as possible because that way it's easier to remember which one you wanted. (actually I solved the problem by having the taskbar on the side and rather wide but I know a lot of people who don't want their taskbar hidden by other windows and therefore can't do it this way)
jm2c
Unlike some other browsers, in Epiphany you will not find half a dozen ways to use tabs and manage cookies and bookmarks, as Epiphany is targeted towards the average user.
And IMHO that's the wrong approach. *Especially* for the less technically inclined it would be better to have as many different ways as possible to do something. If you look at usability studies they always say how the test persons all tried different things to do the required task and how half of them got stuck on the way and didn't know what to do. One thing Windows gets right is that there is always more than one way to reach your goal. (e.g. you can adjust the time by double clicking on the clock, by using the context menu of the clock, by using the control panel etc.)
Having one elegant solution is nice and appeals to the mathematician in us all but if you look at speech there are many different ways to express a thought, perhaps one is more elegant than the others but all may be correct and logical. (to go back to the clock example: user A thinks "I want to change the time, that should be possible by doing something with the clock thingy" but in user B's opinion it's "I want to change a setting, it should be in the control panel")
IMHO, GUIs should try to enable users to do things their way and therefore it's better to have as many approaches as possible for a task
jm2c
*joins kphrak in the trench*
You are aware that almost all useable browsers have an option to ignore the MIME-type and to rely on the extension because the MIME-type is rubbish as often as not?
The goal is not to develop new technologies for this thing which doesn't mean they'll use stuff from the 70s.
Despite different upgrades the basic space shuttle design is over 20 years old; the best and most expensive vcr from 20 years ago still won't come close to my $100 2001 model
I can c&p just fine when using only KDE and GTK apps but I can't c&p from Eterm to KDE apps, I have to select, middle-click in a GTK app and then proceed normally.
so you switch it back to classic and as soon as your Joe Average clicks on start he is lost because the start menu looked different back in (Windows)95.
Talking about a non sequitur.
The important thing is *consistency*. All apps should behave the same way as much as possible (the same tasks in the menu bar in the same position, consistent dialogs etc.) but if I like my desktop to be different from the way Apple thought it would be best why shouldn't that be possible?
I don't like that fanboyish "all worship the mighty Apple HIGs" because Apple breaks and changes them just as they like (*cough* brushed metal style *cough* which is rather cool but from a usability point much worse than the standard style).
end rant.
The alternative would be what? A small flashing light in the right lower corner of the cockpit? I don't see why engineers in the future (assuming they have to build small manned space fighters of course =) shouldn't use sound effects to reduce the information overflow for the eyes, especially as our ears are adapted to locate the direction of a sound with astonishing accuracy
I don't know how accurate it is but they have extensive quotes from newspapers (not the normal, nearly mythical "sources" they mention =) about astonishing discrepancies between polls days before the elections and the elections themselves.
A very convincing article about why a paper trail and verification of results with machines from different vendors or -even better- open source voting machines must be required for elections
Yes. Because they study *real-life* scenarios. Corporate desktops with near-computer-illiterate mid-50s who know a bit about PCs, enough to do their work but are in trouble as soon as they accidently drag their taskbar to the left screen-side.
Face it, most users don't know anything about their PC, and are happy that way and I have no troubles with studies that focus on them nor with an OS *designed* for them.
But I *have* troubles with the stuff MS does in the name of simplicity. It ranges from pure stupidity (One of the problems in the last KDE/XP study was that most people didn't know that directories and folders are the same thing. Question, why rename directories to folders in the first place) to lunacy (how many worms, viri and other stuff would have died unspectacular if MS hadn't had the brilliant idea of hiding file extensions)
You may have heard different. You may have heard that Apple fudged the numbers, cheated on the benchmarks, that the Pentium is faster after all, and that Steve Jobs lied to us. I?m here to tell you it?s an ugly urban legend, repeated by an all-too-predictable ?geek chorus? of fools and liars, in a blind panic over the fact that Apple ships faster boxes than Alienware, repeated by those who have an agenda against Apple and an investment in slow, legacy x86 processors.
[Macedition Information Minister] I tell you there are no processors faster than the G5; the execs of Intel and AMD commit suicide outside of apple shop. They build cpus only to destroy them because they are dog-shit. Long live Apple. Long live Steve Jobs
[/Macedition Information Minister]
Sorry but pages like that make /. look impartial on the Windows/Linux issue
Your B/W G3 would run just find. At least according to grand parent =)
When the Army introduced the successor of the daisy cutter you often heard that it's "as powerful as a small nuclear weapon", well this conventional bomb - the largest you'll find by far - has an explosive power of perhaps 50tons (it weighs thirty and I'm assuming they use something more effective than TNT). 100 of these bombs have an explosive power of 5kt, half of the Hiroshima bomb and at the lower end of what you'd expect in a nuclear artillery shell.
1 *big* bomb would have something in the range of dozens of megatons upwards and would be 1000times more devastating than 100 of the biggest conventional bomb and I'm not even talking about nuclear fallout. An average conventional bomb is 1'000'000 times weaker than an average nuclear weapon and that's why keeping the distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear clear is so important.
That's also the reason I don't like all that WMD talk because chemical and biological weapons are nowhere near the destructive power of nuclear weapons and treating them as the same thing is quite dangerous and utterly idiotic from a danger-analysis point of view which is why you bombed the hell out of Saddam and try sweet-talking (or what W takes for it) Kim
Ogle is simply outdated and MPlayer's got neither the menu support nor the user interface (it's a brilliant player for simply playing files on your hd but it's not suited for the complexity -titles/chapters/audiotracks/subtitletracks/angles - of DVDs)
1. Oh *that's* intuitive - I know it took quite some time till I found lsof
2. what if you don't want to kill that app? Often you're already browsing a completely different directory or -in case of Konqueror instead of Nautilus- you have a number of additional tabs open.
funny, I use Linux exclusively for DVDs, nothing beats xine's performance/picture quality, especially the deinterlacing of the Windows apps I know doesn't come close to xine's linear blend
KDE has made great progress in terms of applications (the traditional stronghold of gtk) just as Gnome has made progress in terms of integration and desktop/filemanager (were KDE has been better)
And though I don't like gnome2 I'm realist enough to tell you that both will still be there in 3 or 4 years when we're gonna have the same discussion again
I prefer buying an old SBLive for a few bucks and getting multiple sound-sources in hardware instead of hunting arts-plugins and trying to get an acceptable latency with arts
But Mozilla still lacks crash recovery (not only for crashs but also when you close it, don't know what it's called then); the best thing about opera is that I can have dozens of windows open then close it and when I start it up again it's as if I never ended it; it remembers the tabs, the history of each tab, settings like text size etc.
I'd really like two buttons for google searches
1. Online-shops yes/no
2. Blogs yes/no
or alternatively both seperate from the main search engine like newsgroups, images, ...
jm2c