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| From | John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: The Fall Of OS/2 |
| Date | 2024-10-07 14:32 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20241007143204.00004b77@gmail.com> (permalink) |
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 20:41:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: > The freedesktop.org standards are supposed by all the major GUI > desktops. Of course they each have their own theming system and > plugins etc. "Supposed" is an apt typo here. > I never understood why that was such a big deal. I’ve used so many > GUIs over the years/decades that switching between different ones is > really not an issue. They all pretty much behave the same anyway, so > what if the window title bar is a slightly different shape, and the > icons have different colours? A computer is for getting work done, > I’m not one of those wasting hours trying to make things look pretty. Well, it's distracting having to constantly switch mental contexts to adapt to whichever of 3+ different look-and-feel variations the program I'm currently using has decided to present me with, but that's a fairly minor annoyance. Much more annoying are all the subtle ways it screws with my workflow: does Alt tapped by itself active the menu bar Windows- style (as in Qt,) or does it require Alt plus an accelerator key (GTK?) Does the file-select/save dialog default to the last active document directory (some Qt/GTK2 applications,) the home directory (other Qt/ GTK2 applications,) or some phantom neverland where you can't save anything (GTK3?) Does type-ahead in file-manager windows/file dialogs quick-select between files in the current directory, or start a search of all subdirectories? There's a million permutations of all these subtle inconsistencies, and while any given answer to each question may be valid (except the ones GTK3 chooses, which are without fail stupid and counterproductive,) constantly having to switch on the fly between them makes it impossible to build up any kind of consistent workflow; the fact that I keep having to think about how this or that application does things on a very basic level means I can never reach the state where I can stop *thinking* and just *work,* free of distraction. > Think about the value of the time of those who wrote the things you > are using for free ... When I think about the people who made decisions the consequence of which is software that annoys me and gets in my way, my primary emotion is not one of gratitude.
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Re: The Fall Of OS/2 John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-07 15:19 -0700
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Re: The Fall Of OS/2 John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 09:59 -0700
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Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-06 15:58 -0700
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Re: The Fall Of OS/2 John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2024-10-07 09:09 -0700
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Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 19:56 -0700
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2024-10-07 15:52 -0700
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-10-08 20:14 -0700
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-09 05:48 +0000
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-10-10 19:28 -0700
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-10-11 05:42 +0000
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) - 2024-10-06 10:10 +0100
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-10-06 07:01 -0400
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-10-06 09:08 -1000
Re: The Fall Of OS/2 Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-10-06 13:33 -1000
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