1) It standardises the position of "OK". There are significantly more boxes that only have a single "OK" gadget than there are only having a single "Cancel" gadget.
IMHO it's not the position of the "OK" button which should be standardized but what you do, and I think it's the correct thing to position the "aknowledge but change nothing" action in the lower right corner, if you change nothing and it was wrong you can get the dialog again if you change it that's often not the case (think: you haven't saved do you really want to quit?)
2) People tend to leave the mouse in the bottom corner of dialog boxes while they're reading them. Dialog boxes should ideally be designed that most of the time the user wishes to choose "OK". Having the "OK" button on the right reduces the time taken to respond to the dialog.
designing your dialog boxes the way 95% of the people are used to should save much more time, you should only change something if there's a real and significant advantage compared to the old standard (which in this case is not there, you also could argue that we read from left to right (which is often invoked to defend cancel/ok) and therefore the ok/cancel order is more natural as the affirmative action is the leftmost which is the whole point - there's no "right" way to do it, it's only a question of choosing A (and satisfy the apple-worshipping crowd) or B (to satisfy the used-to-windows crowd))
As you originally *replied* to my posting you could have *read* it or one of the others which explained that it doesn't work as mplayer couldn't cope with menu and video stream in the same track
"couldn't" because someone else had already posted the link to the patch from one of the mplayer developers which solves the problem (you have to play with a -delay -10.4 though).
And the guys who modded the parent up although there's nothing new in it while *not* modding the guy up who pointed to a working patch can -imho- go to hell, no I'm not mad.
To me, it looks like there is *one* photo-frame (menu?) and then the movie, and all in one stream (stupid arrangement) which throws mplayer off
Re:But what I am rellay looking forward to...
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KDE 3.1 Released
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...some might like tabbed browsing,...
Question, is the bug fixed that if you click a link in tab a then switch to tab b but konqueror only gets a connection to the server after you switched, the new page opens up in tab b? Makes the whole tab-thing pretty useless somehow...
I also hope that they got everything more stable again, somehow stability especially of Konqueror declined sharply between beta2 and rc5 =(
Well, nothing like a night compiling to find out:)
But it really depends on what you want, if you want a "only the good sides of Windows"-distribution Mandrake's the best joice, if you want a "corporate-user"-distribution you should take a look at SuSE, if you want a "just as cool as debian but with a current version KDE without hunting for inofficial sources"-distribution I recommend gentoo (which is not biased towards KDE but isn't against it either (as Redhat arguably is)
In my personal opinion (put on flame suit) KDE has always been infinately better than GNOME. I find GNOME ugly, and irritating to use.. but I can also see the amount of work that has gone into it.
KDE has hits flaws and quirks, but I just get up and going on KDE, and can customize it to my needs a hell of a lot faster than I can with GNOME.
Yes but as long as 99% of the population simply don't care and as long as the 1% of geeks who do care are at the same time the people who buy more DVDs than anyone else (ever read a discussion about the latest LOTR supa dupa special edition?) they're gonna have more than enough money.
the point is that ogg is only a container-format designed to handle different content-streams with the mentioned ds-filter that would be video and audio streams in all kind of formats and text subtitles (and chapters, iirc they were handled as own stream)
You wanted to point at the lack of a truly free video codec therefore you'd better talked about vorbis (the audio codec) not ogg (the file format).
I know it's kind of nitpicking but above some people wrote how mp3 was so much better and ppl would never use mp4 and then this "we don't need mpeg4 we have vorbis"-thing; it's just that everyone was bitching without having a clue and I got this twitching right forefinger and then suddenly I had clicked on the "reply to this" button beneath your comment and then my hands began moving, typing and then, and then... it was stronger than I, sorry, I just needed a victim for my own bitching =)
Considered how successful most of the "Save..." campaigns are that could be just what we need to get rid of that uninspired junk. (no matter how much you like it, even the biggest fan couldn't call the Enterprise storylines "innovative")
Now we only have to start a petition against the cancellation and it's as good as dead =)
IIRC that were official figures so the question is how many more are in circulation
One thing that really astonishes me is that there are virtually no PC games on DVD and I can't but wonder why. Every publisher is crying about piracy but they ignore one of the more effective methods to stop it;
so why don't they use DVDs and fill them with movies and extras? Of course you can crack the game but there's a difference between simply throwing clonecd at a game cd or getting a cracked version with no videos and stuff and imho that's the main reason why there is substantially less "casual" game copying (meaning not commercial piracy) in the console world
So I'm sitting at an AthlonXP starting a game I'm going to play in 1280x1024 with AA and watching the intro-movie (if there is one) in 320x240 bink.
Yeah I know, everyone has flash and the official sites for tv-shows are always the absolutely best way to enhance your personal information-gathering experience.
But... couldn't you have linked to some review of the show, a fanpage or something like that, so everyone who didn't watch it could inform him-/herself without using google?
The point of the posting is that the old name Apple was an allusion to Orange now it had to be renamed but the new name also is one this time to the color not the fruit.
Re:Comparison to PicoGUI?
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Why not have a look at the FAQ on the PicoGUI homepage:
Fresco is another GUI (http://fresco.org) that has some similarities to PicoGUI. Fresco has been around for quite a while longer than PicoGUI, but when PicoGUI was started MicahDowty didn't know about Fresco.
Similarities between PicoGUI and Fresco:
-Standard widgets on the server side -Separation between applications and device coordinates -Server keeps a scene graph -New GUI architecture, with no backward compatibility -Language-independent client/server protocol
Differences between PicoGUI and Fresco:
-PicoGUI takes a lot of shortcuts compared to Fresco, to make it more suitable for embedded systems -Fresco uses device independent coordinates everywhere, while PicoGUI's themes and layout engine still use pixels -Fresco uses CORBA, while PicoGUI has its own network protocol -There's nothing like PicoGUI's theme interpreter in Fresco -Fresco handles overlapping, and uses a homogeneous scene graph making it more suitable for generic drawing apps and desktop window management -PicoGUI has features taylored for embedded systems, such as support for low-end display hardware, and keyboard-only navigation -Fresco does real transparency, while PicoGUI usually cheats:) -Fresco relies heavily on floating point math, PicoGUI's core is 100% integer. Of course this means that picogui's layout engine has to operate in integer pixel units. (See below)
Of course they have more in common - both are seen as traitors and main enemy by all the X zealots who come out of their holes every time there's an article about (perhaps) better replacements on/.
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IMHO it's not the position of the "OK" button which should be standardized but what you do, and I think it's the correct thing to position the "aknowledge but change nothing" action in the lower right corner, if you change nothing and it was wrong you can get the dialog again if you change it that's often not the case (think: you haven't saved do you really want to quit?)
2) People tend to leave the mouse in the bottom corner of dialog boxes while they're reading them. Dialog boxes should ideally be designed that most of the time the user wishes to choose "OK". Having the "OK" button on the right reduces the time taken to respond to the dialog.
designing your dialog boxes the way 95% of the people are used to should save much more time, you should only change something if there's a real and significant advantage compared to the old standard (which in this case is not there, you also could argue that we read from left to right (which is often invoked to defend cancel/ok) and therefore the ok/cancel order is more natural as the affirmative action is the leftmost which is the whole point - there's no "right" way to do it, it's only a question of choosing A (and satisfy the apple-worshipping crowd) or B (to satisfy the used-to-windows crowd))
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Aiken
It is *not* piracy, it's aquiring of business assets by patriotic revenue-generating entrepreneurs
It is *not* Piracy, it's aquiring of business assets by patriotic revenue-generating entrepreneurs.
"couldn't" because someone else had already posted the link to the patch from one of the mplayer developers which solves the problem (you have to play with a -delay -10.4 though).
And the guys who modded the parent up although there's nothing new in it while *not* modding the guy up who pointed to a working patch can -imho- go to hell, no I'm not mad.
Seems so
which is a different track,
As I've already said above, it looks like it is the same track and that's exactely why it doesn't work and unfortunately I don't know a work around =/
It's not:
MOV: Warning! Variable FOURCC detected!?
To me, it looks like there is *one* photo-frame (menu?) and then the movie, and all in one stream (stupid arrangement) which throws mplayer off
Question, is the bug fixed that if you click a link in tab a then switch to tab b but konqueror only gets a connection to the server after you switched, the new page opens up in tab b? Makes the whole tab-thing pretty useless somehow...
I also hope that they got everything more stable again, somehow stability especially of Konqueror declined sharply between beta2 and rc5 =(
Well, nothing like a night compiling to find out :)
But it really depends on what you want, if you want a "only the good sides of Windows"-distribution Mandrake's the best joice, if you want a "corporate-user"-distribution you should take a look at SuSE, if you want a "just as cool as debian but with a current version KDE without hunting for inofficial sources"-distribution I recommend gentoo (which is not biased towards KDE but isn't against it either (as Redhat arguably is)
jm2
KDE has hits flaws and quirks, but I just get up and going on KDE, and can customize it to my needs a hell of a lot faster than I can with GNOME.
Sorry, I just had to do that =)
Yes but as long as 99% of the population simply don't care and as long as the 1% of geeks who do care are at the same time the people who buy more DVDs than anyone else (ever read a discussion about the latest LOTR supa dupa special edition?) they're gonna have more than enough money.
How about:
1. During the installation choose "advanced" to get the package selection and install whatever you want
2. Use rpmdrake to remove the CD sources and install a ftp-source from the list
3. Changing your WM works like on most distros either via ~/.xinitrc or the display manager's dropdown menu
I think that should do about the same =)
It's nothing compared to Nintendo-math with it's famous equation $99.95=129-139EUR for the Gameboy Advance SP.
Could someone mod parent +1 informative? =)
You wanted to point at the lack of a truly free video codec therefore you'd better talked about vorbis (the audio codec) not ogg (the file format).
I know it's kind of nitpicking but above some people wrote how mp3 was so much better and ppl would never use mp4 and then this "we don't need mpeg4 we have vorbis"-thing; it's just that everyone was bitching without having a clue and I got this twitching right forefinger and then suddenly I had clicked on the "reply to this" button beneath your comment and then my hands began moving, typing and then, and then... it was stronger than I, sorry, I just needed a victim for my own bitching =)
So please tell us how you archive all your pr0n; we crave enlightenment =)
What you mean is "there's no free video *codec* of a similar level as vorbis for audio"
Now we only have to start a petition against the cancellation and it's as good as dead =)
One thing that really astonishes me is that there are virtually no PC games on DVD and I can't but wonder why. Every publisher is crying about piracy but they ignore one of the more effective methods to stop it;
so why don't they use DVDs and fill them with movies and extras? Of course you can crack the game but there's a difference between simply throwing clonecd at a game cd or getting a cracked version with no videos and stuff and imho that's the main reason why there is substantially less "casual" game copying (meaning not commercial piracy) in the console world
So I'm sitting at an AthlonXP starting a game I'm going to play in 1280x1024 with AA and watching the intro-movie (if there is one) in 320x240 bink.
Of course, as we all know violating the DMCA (the Norwegian version in this case) is cyber-terrorism so probably it makes sense
http://www.debian.org/~kju/decsstruth.txt
in short:
He stole the source, violated the GPL and didn't even have a linux-box.
I don't know whether it's true but it sounds convincing
But... couldn't you have linked to some review of the show, a fanpage or something like that, so everyone who didn't watch it could inform him-/herself without using google?
Brave New World =)
The point of the posting is that the old name Apple was an allusion to Orange now it had to be renamed but the new name also is one this time to the color not the fruit.
Why not have a look at the FAQ on the PicoGUI homepage:
:)
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Fresco is another GUI (http://fresco.org) that has some similarities to PicoGUI. Fresco has been around for quite a while longer than PicoGUI, but when PicoGUI was started MicahDowty didn't know about Fresco.
Similarities between PicoGUI and Fresco:
-Standard widgets on the server side
-Separation between applications and device coordinates
-Server keeps a scene graph
-New GUI architecture, with no backward compatibility
-Language-independent client/server protocol
Differences between PicoGUI and Fresco:
-PicoGUI takes a lot of shortcuts compared to Fresco, to make it more suitable for embedded systems
-Fresco uses device independent coordinates everywhere, while PicoGUI's themes and layout engine still use pixels
-Fresco uses CORBA, while PicoGUI has its own network protocol
-There's nothing like PicoGUI's theme interpreter in Fresco
-Fresco handles overlapping, and uses a homogeneous scene graph making it more suitable for generic drawing apps and desktop window management
-PicoGUI has features taylored for embedded systems, such as support for low-end display hardware, and keyboard-only navigation
-Fresco does real transparency, while PicoGUI usually cheats
-Fresco relies heavily on floating point math, PicoGUI's core is 100% integer. Of course this means that picogui's layout engine has to operate in integer pixel units. (See below)
Of course they have more in common - both are seen as traitors and main enemy by all the X zealots who come out of their holes every time there's an article about (perhaps) better replacements on
Great