I also tried this; Nautilus displayed the filename as expected, however the statusbar text read:
"SexyL(etyb 1) detceles "exe.jpg
Which was meant to look like this:
"SexyLgpj.exe" selected (1 byte)
Except that the whole thing got confused by the RTL marker. Also, when displayed by ls, it would only work if it happened to appear in the rightmost column, because any other filenames printed to the right of it get similarly corrupted. In my case it happened to say 'SexyLenO utnubU exe.jpg" (and the reversed 'Ubuntu One' folder was displayed in a different color because I have ls colors turned on). So it's pretty obvious either way that something fishy is going on, thankfully.
You said yourself in your own post, that you used an old debian with GNOME 2.6, and now you're seeing new features in the new debian and you're impressed with the progress debian is making.
Now, I'm not arguing that debian isn't making progress, but... oooooooh, they packaged the latest GNOME. Any distro that happens to package the latest GNOME also has made all the exact same progress you speak of. So that's kind of meaningless. GNOME has made leaps and bounds of progress in terms of usability, UI consistency, things like that... credit where credit is due man, this is GNOME making progress, not debian.
For example a generic folder on "any recipient" would contain folders for every recipient.
Thunderbird has something similar to this though it's not quite as flexible. It's called "group by sort".
What you do is, for example, go into your inbox and sort by sender name. Then go to View -> Sort by -> Group by sort. What you'll find is that your inbox now has a collapsible "tree" view of all the people who have sent you mail. They act kinda like subfolders but not really. And I find it limited because it'll consider sender "Bob <bob@example.com>" as being a different person from "bob@example.com". Oh yeah, and it screws up the threading. right... But, you know, the idea is there.
I love this expression. If you were in charge, the only people allowed to eat cake would be people who have no cake. You'd have huge groups of people with cake that's just sitting around going bad, with everybody else starving for cake and not having any. Why do you hate cake so much? Just let people enjoy it, for shit's sake!
I *love* the upcoming view. It's what I've been searching for in a calendar for years!
Now, give me an application that will do this right on my desktop and be visible at all times (instead of requiring me to fire up a browser just to look at), and we'll talk.
You're absolutely right in that a lot of the effects present server no real purpose other than showing off capabilities, but you're missing the bigger point here.
The point of all this aiglx/xgl/etc stuff is not so that we can have drop shadows and transparency. The point is having hardware accelerated X to take load off the main CPU, making UI interactions faster and more efficient. It's about taking advantage of the hardware that we have instead of relying on the CPU to do everything. All the visual effects are just gravy.
And I gree that some of the effects are a bit garish and overdone, but I like a lot of them. You can expect that within a few months, there'll be third-party compositing managers come out that do all kinds of crazy, experimental effects, most of which would make a normal person hurl. But I expect that both Fedora and Ubuntu will be in a race to create a very coherent desktop experience, using only subtle eyecandy where it makes sense to improve usability (such as the minimize animation showing where the window is actually going).
One effect that I'd really like to see is desaturating inactive windows. A lot of windowmanagers do this with just the titlebar, for example, where the active window has a blue title bar and inactive ones have grey titlebars. Imagine if this desaturation was applied to the entire window and not just the titlebar. That would convey useful information (the active window is the only one that has any colour in it), while not being garish or overdone. Perhaps only desaturate to 50% instead of all the way to 0%, just to retain *some* colour for applications where colour conveys important information (I'm sure most applications use colour to convey information, such as link colours in a browser).
You can, but you have to be root and turn on a special option. They deliberately make it hard to do because if you accidentally make a recursive hardlink, the computer will shoot deadly beams into your eyes and then explode. And you don't want that!
I downloaded some GPL licensed code and burned it onto a CD disk. After, I went to the ATM machine to get some money, and it asked for my PIN number. Things picked up later on when I went to the grocery store to buy some KD dinner and found it was on sale! The next morning at work, I soldered some LED diodes onto an IC circuit. My boss asked me why I was late handing in my TPS specification report, and I told him to cram it up his ass. After that he fired me and I had to prematurely withdraw money from my GIC certificates in order to pay the rent. Then I got hit by an SUV vehicle.
There's a famous quote I'm thinking of, but I forget who said it: "Computer Science is the study of computers insofar as Astronomy is the study of telescopes."
Advocating that somebody should ride a bicycle instead of driving a car wouldn't be nearly as silly as it is if cars didn't exist.
Nowhere did I say that cars should not be invented. The poster was asking why he should "ride a bicycle" (use commandline tools) instead of "drive a car" (use WinFS), and I merely pointed out that cars (WinFS) don't exist, so there's not much choice there.
copyright gives you the RIGHT to use the copy you paid for. period.
Actually, copyright is the right of the creator of a given work to restrict the copying & distribution of that work. It has absolutely no bearing on what you can or can't do with the work.
NOTE: this post may contain peanuts^H lies, damn lines
Interesting. I'm curious to know what kind of peanut lies and/or damn lines your post may contain. I'm allergic to peanut lies, but the damn lines, that's just bad luck.
But maintaining StarOffice as a fork of OpenOffice if it's all just going to be LGPL anyway is just a waste of time; hence the thought that they might just kill off StarOffice and then just have OpenOffice.
1) Tools->Page Info 2) click "Media" tab 3) Scroll through list of the media until you find the one you're looking for 4) select it and click "save as"
Now you have a video file saved that you can open with whatever you want.
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I also tried this; Nautilus displayed the filename as expected, however the statusbar text read:
"SexyL(etyb 1) detceles "exe.jpg
Which was meant to look like this:
"SexyLgpj.exe" selected (1 byte)
Except that the whole thing got confused by the RTL marker. Also, when displayed by ls, it would only work if it happened to appear in the rightmost column, because any other filenames printed to the right of it get similarly corrupted. In my case it happened to say 'SexyLenO utnubU exe.jpg" (and the reversed 'Ubuntu One' folder was displayed in a different color because I have ls colors turned on). So it's pretty obvious either way that something fishy is going on, thankfully.
You said yourself in your own post, that you used an old debian with GNOME 2.6, and now you're seeing new features in the new debian and you're impressed with the progress debian is making.
Now, I'm not arguing that debian isn't making progress, but... oooooooh, they packaged the latest GNOME. Any distro that happens to package the latest GNOME also has made all the exact same progress you speak of. So that's kind of meaningless. GNOME has made leaps and bounds of progress in terms of usability, UI consistency, things like that... credit where credit is due man, this is GNOME making progress, not debian.
For example a generic folder on "any recipient" would contain folders for every recipient.
Thunderbird has something similar to this though it's not quite as flexible. It's called "group by sort".
What you do is, for example, go into your inbox and sort by sender name. Then go to View -> Sort by -> Group by sort. What you'll find is that your inbox now has a collapsible "tree" view of all the people who have sent you mail. They act kinda like subfolders but not really. And I find it limited because it'll consider sender "Bob <bob@example.com>" as being a different person from "bob@example.com". Oh yeah, and it screws up the threading. right... But, you know, the idea is there.
None of this cake having and eating.
I love this expression. If you were in charge, the only people allowed to eat cake would be people who have no cake. You'd have huge groups of people with cake that's just sitting around going bad, with everybody else starving for cake and not having any. Why do you hate cake so much? Just let people enjoy it, for shit's sake!
Just found this dashboard widget. Now, to buy a Mac...
I *love* the upcoming view. It's what I've been searching for in a calendar for years!
Now, give me an application that will do this right on my desktop and be visible at all times (instead of requiring me to fire up a browser just to look at), and we'll talk.
You're absolutely right in that a lot of the effects present server no real purpose other than showing off capabilities, but you're missing the bigger point here.
The point of all this aiglx/xgl/etc stuff is not so that we can have drop shadows and transparency. The point is having hardware accelerated X to take load off the main CPU, making UI interactions faster and more efficient. It's about taking advantage of the hardware that we have instead of relying on the CPU to do everything. All the visual effects are just gravy.
And I gree that some of the effects are a bit garish and overdone, but I like a lot of them. You can expect that within a few months, there'll be third-party compositing managers come out that do all kinds of crazy, experimental effects, most of which would make a normal person hurl. But I expect that both Fedora and Ubuntu will be in a race to create a very coherent desktop experience, using only subtle eyecandy where it makes sense to improve usability (such as the minimize animation showing where the window is actually going).
One effect that I'd really like to see is desaturating inactive windows. A lot of windowmanagers do this with just the titlebar, for example, where the active window has a blue title bar and inactive ones have grey titlebars. Imagine if this desaturation was applied to the entire window and not just the titlebar. That would convey useful information (the active window is the only one that has any colour in it), while not being garish or overdone. Perhaps only desaturate to 50% instead of all the way to 0%, just to retain *some* colour for applications where colour conveys important information (I'm sure most applications use colour to convey information, such as link colours in a browser).
You can, but you have to be root and turn on a special option. They deliberately make it hard to do because if you accidentally make a recursive hardlink, the computer will shoot deadly beams into your eyes and then explode. And you don't want that!
I downloaded some GPL licensed code and burned it onto a CD disk. After, I went to the ATM machine to get some money, and it asked for my PIN number. Things picked up later on when I went to the grocery store to buy some KD dinner and found it was on sale! The next morning at work, I soldered some LED diodes onto an IC circuit. My boss asked me why I was late handing in my TPS specification report, and I told him to cram it up his ass. After that he fired me and I had to prematurely withdraw money from my GIC certificates in order to pay the rent. Then I got hit by an SUV vehicle.
Yeah, that's about all I got.
I've got my bets on Slippery Serpent.
That's not all that was LONG and HARD. Oooooooh yeah!
4) Channel mixer;
Filters --> Colors --> Channel Mixer.
WinFS is not a File System
;)
While technically true, I found this statement funny. It's a recursive acronym along the same lines as "Wine Is Not an Emulator" or "GNU's Not Unix"
There's a famous quote I'm thinking of, but I forget who said it: "Computer Science is the study of computers insofar as Astronomy is the study of telescopes."
Advocating that somebody should ride a bicycle instead of driving a car wouldn't be nearly as silly as it is if cars didn't exist.
Nowhere did I say that cars should not be invented. The poster was asking why he should "ride a bicycle" (use commandline tools) instead of "drive a car" (use WinFS), and I merely pointed out that cars (WinFS) don't exist, so there's not much choice there.
FWIW, it's ^W.
copyright gives you the RIGHT to use the copy you paid for. period.
Actually, copyright is the right of the creator of a given work to restrict the copying & distribution of that work. It has absolutely no bearing on what you can or can't do with the work.
Slashdot: News from the 80s. Stuff that mattered 20 years ago.
Isn't the row-column limit basically a signed int, being 32k rows & 32k columns?
I just checked this in gnumeric and it was 65,536 rows and 256 columns.
NOTE: this post may contain peanuts^H lies, damn lines
Interesting. I'm curious to know what kind of peanut lies and/or damn lines your post may contain. I'm allergic to peanut lies, but the damn lines, that's just bad luck.
Also, the US is bigger than any European country, meaning that americans have to drive farther from home to work.
But maintaining StarOffice as a fork of OpenOffice if it's all just going to be LGPL anyway is just a waste of time; hence the thought that they might just kill off StarOffice and then just have OpenOffice.
If you've done it, you'd know why.
I always hated 12-step programs.
1) Tools->Page Info
2) click "Media" tab
3) Scroll through list of the media until you find the one you're looking for
4) select it and click "save as"
Now you have a video file saved that you can open with whatever you want.