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Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop

From Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop
Date 2019-01-31 15:02 +0100
Organization turdv owners club
Message-ID <87a7jggc1r.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink)
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"F. Russell" <fr@random.info> writes:

> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:18:39 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> 
>> Budgie edge-snaps applications (drag app window to edge of screen - when 
>> mouse hits edge it sizes and places the app to occupy the entire left- 
>> or right-half of the screen). 
>>
>
> Big fucking deal.
>
> You must still get a big thrill over other absolutely trivial and banal
> things like refrigerator magnets.
>
>
>> 
>> Sweet!
>> 
>
> A quote from Wikipedia explaining the rational:
>
> "aiming to keep a balance between aesthetics and functionality"
>
>
> FYI, aesthetics has no place in a computing system.  A computer
> OS is like an army barracks and should express only pure
> functionality.
>
> Aesthetics is for stupid cunts.
>

Wow.

You really are an idiot.


-- 
chrisv alias turdv is a turd

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Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-01-29 09:18 -0500
  Any new feature in a Linux Distro worth its salt will eventually end up in Linux Mint, Mate! Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2019-01-29 07:42 -0800
    Re: Any new feature in a Linux Distro worth its salt will eventually end up in Linux Mint, Mate! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-01-29 10:55 -0500
      Snit gets beaten up by Russell and does nothing.  Now, that is what Moi calls funny. Simon bar Sinister <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2019-01-30 03:32 -0800
  Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-01-30 10:30 +0000
    Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2019-01-30 09:52 -0500
      Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop "F. Russell" <frussell@random.info> - 2019-01-30 15:04 +0000
      Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2019-01-30 08:14 -0800
      Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-01-31 00:07 +0000
    Re: Somebody deserves credit for this GUI feature I found on the Budgie desktop Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2019-01-31 15:02 +0100

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