Although I'm quite enthused for the new feature in home: I like the idea of having a mac-like user folder so easily accesible for things like dropbox functionality.
You mean like the/home/[yourusername] directory that all linux distributions have had since 1991? I'm not really sure what KDE's home:/ does that's so amazing, it shows you the home directories of the other users in your group, which would be moderately useful if you were on a large system with lots of users and intelligent organization of groups, but on the average single-user home system, it's going to be a directory that shows only a single icon: your home directory. Whoooo! Real exciting! So glad they added that.
Excuse me, a bigger copy of the icon along with the actual text explaining what it is. Now what's useful there for the users? The giant reproduction of the icon or the text? And how is making it obnoxiously huge sensible?
I admit that in a lot of cases it's just visual fluff (especially the fade-in effect as it appears), but I kinda like it and I think it's best use would be for a media player... you could mouse over the media player's tray icon, and it would pop up a big bubble with album art and all the track information (album name, artist name, track name, track number, duration, time remaining before the song is over, etc). I think that'd be nifty, not sure if they've implemented it yet.
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My biggest complaint with KDE is the absolutely awful interface for customizing toolbar icons. It's just so horrible... I'm something of a minimalist, I like to have as few buttons as possible on the toolbars. Heaven forbid they could implement a drag and drop so that I can drag away all the useless buttons that I'll never use, it has to be in this horrible menu where I can't even find where half the buttons are that I want to remove.
For shits and giggles, load up firefox and inspect it's "customize toolbar" interface, and compare it to Konqueror. If Konq (and all of KDE, since all KDE apps are like that) could be more like Firefox, that'd be super.
I guess the reason I still prefer GNOME to KDE is that I'm something of a minimalist, and most GNOME apps tend to be focused on simplicity... GNOME apps try to remove as many superfluous features as possible, without leaving out anything essential... so the interfaces are simple, elegant, few toolbar buttons. KDE on the other hand is all about cramming the interface with tons of useless crap that people will rarely use, cluttered toolbars and cluttered menus... go into any KDE app and check out the "Settings" menu, there will be at least 3 different "Configure [something]..." menu items, in some apps I've seen up to 7! WTF?
There's a lot that I like about KDE, like the way kparts work, I really like Kontact and KMail is my favorite mail client featurewise, Qt is pretty sexy as a toolkit... kicker has some decent features compared to gnome-panel... but the clutter in some KDE apps is so bad, it keeps me on GNOME.
Well, speaking as somebody who is actually on the picket line, I have not seen any violence... we just walk up and down the street peacefully, people honk in support as they drive by, and we cheer. I haven't seen anybody being accosted for crossing the picket line, or anything like that.
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the debian idea of "stable" as practised in Ubuntu... it's a great thing on a server where you don't want to bugger around with updates every other day, but on a desktop it's kind of annoying running a version of gaim or firefox that's a couple minor versions out of date, especially when the updates have bugfixes and features that you really want.
Backports is kinda nice but it doesn't seem to be enough.
Oh, completely agreed. I was designing a small website once, wanted to use a transparent PNG (with a soft fade from opaque to transparent). Worked great in firefox, but in IE, the color of the transparent part of the PNG didn't match the color of the background of the website. WTF? It's 100% transparent, how can it be a different color than what's behind it? Stupid IE. Ended up using a GIF instead.
That makes sense for the prime factorization guy, since his UID is basically random, but for the UID 7,000,000 guy, how long did he sit there making new accounts before he got the one he wanted? I think a similar thing was done with the 6,000,000 UID as well.
Telus has been pretty evil lately. In April they stopped deducting union dues from our paycheques, forcing us to pay the union dues manually. I see this as well as blocking the union website as a direct act of hostility towards the union.
We have been without a contract for 1,666 days or so now, the contract that Telus is trying to shove down our throats is completely unacceptable, and they are not willing to negotiate. I'm glad that we're striking, I hope Telus loses tons of money and gets really screwed over this.;)
What I'd like to know is how these people manage to predict their id numbers (the guy's username is the prime factorization of his UID). Compare this to users like Seven00Kay.
Have you tried Ubuntu? Going from Fedora with a 4CD install / 3GB disk used on the default install to Ubuntu with a 1CD install / 1.5GB disk used on the default install was very refreshing -- then I enabled the universe repositories and installed the few things that were missing. I don't even know what other crap Fedora was installing, but I sure aren't missing any of it.
The only problem I have with note-taking on stuff like laptops is copying down diagrams and such in the science classes.
Of course, my idea for copying down notes was simply to bring a small digital camera and photograph everything the teacher puts up on the whiteboard...;)
Seriously though, I'm not surprised that 1/3 of all studies are garbage. It's what happens when your society places a higher value on sensationalism than accuracy.
That seems like a lot but it works out to $18/mo which seems very reasonable compared to what I pay for cable in a month. I certainly wouldn't mind paying less and not having to watch commercials.
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LOL. Next time a fertile woman smiles at you but refuses to copulate, accuse her of murder!
Just make sure it's Hot Coffee.
One fifth of my country... is also Nunavut.
Although I'm quite enthused for the new feature in home: I like the idea of having a mac-like user folder so easily accesible for things like dropbox functionality.
/home/[yourusername] directory that all linux distributions have had since 1991? I'm not really sure what KDE's home:/ does that's so amazing, it shows you the home directories of the other users in your group, which would be moderately useful if you were on a large system with lots of users and intelligent organization of groups, but on the average single-user home system, it's going to be a directory that shows only a single icon: your home directory. Whoooo! Real exciting! So glad they added that.
You mean like the
Excuse me, a bigger copy of the icon along with the actual text explaining what it is. Now what's useful there for the users? The giant reproduction of the icon or the text? And how is making it obnoxiously huge sensible?
I admit that in a lot of cases it's just visual fluff (especially the fade-in effect as it appears), but I kinda like it and I think it's best use would be for a media player... you could mouse over the media player's tray icon, and it would pop up a big bubble with album art and all the track information (album name, artist name, track name, track number, duration, time remaining before the song is over, etc). I think that'd be nifty, not sure if they've implemented it yet.
My biggest complaint with KDE is the absolutely awful interface for customizing toolbar icons. It's just so horrible... I'm something of a minimalist, I like to have as few buttons as possible on the toolbars. Heaven forbid they could implement a drag and drop so that I can drag away all the useless buttons that I'll never use, it has to be in this horrible menu where I can't even find where half the buttons are that I want to remove.
For shits and giggles, load up firefox and inspect it's "customize toolbar" interface, and compare it to Konqueror. If Konq (and all of KDE, since all KDE apps are like that) could be more like Firefox, that'd be super.
I guess the reason I still prefer GNOME to KDE is that I'm something of a minimalist, and most GNOME apps tend to be focused on simplicity... GNOME apps try to remove as many superfluous features as possible, without leaving out anything essential... so the interfaces are simple, elegant, few toolbar buttons. KDE on the other hand is all about cramming the interface with tons of useless crap that people will rarely use, cluttered toolbars and cluttered menus... go into any KDE app and check out the "Settings" menu, there will be at least 3 different "Configure [something]..." menu items, in some apps I've seen up to 7! WTF?
There's a lot that I like about KDE, like the way kparts work, I really like Kontact and KMail is my favorite mail client featurewise, Qt is pretty sexy as a toolkit... kicker has some decent features compared to gnome-panel... but the clutter in some KDE apps is so bad, it keeps me on GNOME.
I do not trust them further than I can throw their cellphones.
Unless Nokia started making super-heavy cellphones without telling me, this phrase suggests you trust them quite a lot.
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Well, speaking as somebody who is actually on the picket line, I have not seen any violence... we just walk up and down the street peacefully, people honk in support as they drive by, and we cheer. I haven't seen anybody being accosted for crossing the picket line, or anything like that.
Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the debian idea of "stable" as practised in Ubuntu... it's a great thing on a server where you don't want to bugger around with updates every other day, but on a desktop it's kind of annoying running a version of gaim or firefox that's a couple minor versions out of date, especially when the updates have bugfixes and features that you really want.
Backports is kinda nice but it doesn't seem to be enough.
Oh, completely agreed. I was designing a small website once, wanted to use a transparent PNG (with a soft fade from opaque to transparent). Worked great in firefox, but in IE, the color of the transparent part of the PNG didn't match the color of the background of the website. WTF? It's 100% transparent, how can it be a different color than what's behind it? Stupid IE. Ended up using a GIF instead.
That makes sense for the prime factorization guy, since his UID is basically random, but for the UID 7,000,000 guy, how long did he sit there making new accounts before he got the one he wanted? I think a similar thing was done with the 6,000,000 UID as well.
Telus has been pretty evil lately. In April they stopped deducting union dues from our paycheques, forcing us to pay the union dues manually. I see this as well as blocking the union website as a direct act of hostility towards the union.
;)
We have been without a contract for 1,666 days or so now, the contract that Telus is trying to shove down our throats is completely unacceptable, and they are not willing to negotiate. I'm glad that we're striking, I hope Telus loses tons of money and gets really screwed over this.
I think MSTDOFL is a great acronym, because we could pronounce it "Emm Standard Awful."
We could take it one step further and call it "More Shitty Stuff To Disable On First Login", MSSTDOFL, or "MS' Standard Awful."
The Power of Nightmares.
You didn't hear this from me.
What I'd like to know is how these people manage to predict their id numbers (the guy's username is the prime factorization of his UID). Compare this to users like Seven00Kay.
You'd have to pronounce it "Cheatem' to the T!"
Has-beens are sad. Particularly when they don't understand it.
;)
The problem with dvorak isn't that he's a has-been, it's that he's a never-will-be.
My speed stripes give my PC at least an extra 50MHz. You can really feel the difference when loading applications!
Yeah, IMHO PNG is meant more to replace GIF than JPEG.
Have you tried Ubuntu? Going from Fedora with a 4CD install / 3GB disk used on the default install to Ubuntu with a 1CD install / 1.5GB disk used on the default install was very refreshing -- then I enabled the universe repositories and installed the few things that were missing. I don't even know what other crap Fedora was installing, but I sure aren't missing any of it.
The only problem I have with note-taking on stuff like laptops is copying down diagrams and such in the science classes.
;)
Of course, my idea for copying down notes was simply to bring a small digital camera and photograph everything the teacher puts up on the whiteboard...
Seriously though, I'm not surprised that 1/3 of all studies are garbage. It's what happens when your society places a higher value on sensationalism than accuracy.
That seems like a lot but it works out to $18/mo which seems very reasonable compared to what I pay for cable in a month. I certainly wouldn't mind paying less and not having to watch commercials.