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> I have no emotional investment in software Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software.

by jraph 1y ago

> I have no emotional investment in software Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software. > And the floating panel. Nonsense. If I want to slam my mouse cursor into screen corners, I ought to do that without any major finesse. A floating panel means you need to aim like an idiot and waste your time trying to hit a "floating" target. It would have taken 2 secs to check that actually you don't have to do this. I just checked, you can aim the corners or the under the panel and clicking still works. The floating panel is just esthetics and the KDE devs made sure it doesn't have ergonomic difference. It also "reverts" to regular panel whenever a window is close enough, so no space is lost. I do think that the floating panel was not a necessary change, but you can just not care and I do find it looks good. I can't take such an article seriously when it contains unchecked rants like this, and confuses bugs with design choices like this.

eadmund 1y ago
> Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software. An emotional impact from a piece of software’s failures is not the same as being emotionally invested in a piece of software. I have not emotional investment in my NIC’s firmware: I honestly don’t care about it, I don’t think about it. But if it stops working, or starts flooding my LAN with random packets, then I will care. Likewise, I am not personally invested in Wayland vs. X11. I am emotionally invested in the way I use my computer, in my editor, my terminal, my web browser and my window manager: as long as a Wayland implementation supports all of them without regressions, then I really don’t care if my distribution continues to support X.org. But when no Wayland implementation supports my software stack, I care that my distribution continues to support X.org. And if folks associated with Wayland were to try to smuggle needless incompatibilities with X.org into software I use then I would be upset.

by jraph 1y ago

eadmund 1y ago

> Quite some emotions, also in the linked article about XLibre, from someone not emotionally invested in software. An emotional impact from a piece of software’s failures is not the same as being emotionally invested in a piece of software. I have not emotional investment in my NIC’s firmware: I honestly don’t care about it, I don’t think about it. But if it stops working, or starts flooding my LAN with random packets, then I will care. Likewise, I am not personally invested in Wayland vs. X11. I am emotionally invested in the way I use my computer, in my editor, my terminal, my web browser and my window manager: as long as a Wayland implementation supports all of them without regressions, then I really don’t care if my distribution continues to support X.org. But when no Wayland implementation supports my software stack, I care that my distribution continues to support X.org. And if folks associated with Wayland were to try to smuggle needless incompatibilities with X.org into software I use then I would be upset.