Joeboy

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by Joeboy 10y ago
The thing is, my whining isn't really directed at you or the GIMP's devs, it's directed at people who blame any complaints about the UI on Photoshop users or whatever. It sounds like you understand that the program isn't
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by Joeboy 10y ago
Here's an example that was just pointed out to me by prokoudine: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=52ad5bb2a11e39f... The default situation was that the toolbox grabbed the focus when clicked.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
Cool! Despite my whining I really appreciate the past and future efforts to make it better.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
Alt-F + W will save your file back to the original file. (or File menu + "Overwrite {filename}". I complain a lot about GIMP's UI but I don't really see a problem here.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
Maybe this is a good example to talk about good and bad UI. There are UIs that are easy to learn, but less efficient in daily use. There are UIs that are difficult to learn, but efficient in daily use by experienced users. Good UIs steer
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> But both of these are things that are fixed with Single Window Mode (which it's clear you know about). They aren't entirely gone though. Eg. if I find my chosen font in the font selector, click it or press enter to select it,
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by Joeboy 10y ago
There's this: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign
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by Joeboy 10y ago
There used to be a fork called GimpShop that did this. It didn't help much to be honest, because GIMP's pain points are mostly deeper than the keyboard shortcuts.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> Its certainly OK for a product to innovate, as GIMP has. I'm not sure the GIMP's UI choices can generally be described as "innovating". I think they're generally just the obvious GTK+ default options, implement
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> But this thing about GIMP having a UI that's _objectively_ bad is just unsupportable IMO. I don't mind GIMP's UI being different from Photoshop. I last used Photoshop over a decade ago and that would be plenty of time to
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by Joeboy 10y ago
No. Blender's UI is initially impenetrable but once you work it out it becomes second nature. GIMP's UI is initially impenetrable and once you work it out it seems even worse than you thought. Edit: In fact, I think GIMP and Blend
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> Breaking out of your comfort zone isn't about addressing defects, it's about growing as a person. Do you think it's the discomfort itself that helps you grow as a person, or something else? If not, what? For myself, I th
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by Joeboy 10y ago
I semi-agree, but I actually liked the article precisely because opinions like yours are the only ones I ever hear. I agree that it's probably a good idea to go outside sometimes even if you don't feel like it. But you should not
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by Joeboy 10y ago
DDG is really great for easily doing specific types of search, eg. adding "!w" to your query will search for something on Wikipedia. For that feature, it's extremely useful and I don't like to be without it. But its own
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> I'm not sure about the proportionality of the 20th "No, seriously, Elizabeth Holmes is a terrible terrible person!" - article. Out of interest I googled the hits on HN for Holmes and 2016's other medical industry bê
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by Joeboy 10y ago
I thoroughly agree about some of these (artisanal tampons, eyebrow pomade), but Open Bionics is a great thing and some of the others definitely look like worthwhile ventures.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
> There's a 20 minute running street battle at the end with tanks and explosions that is shot in a single take. Strictly speaking there's a cut hidden in the middle of it somewhere.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
To me, machine code would mean the output of the assembler. Maybe the terminology isn't tied down that well though.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
I don't think anybody is claiming it's not called assembler, just that it's also / mostly called assembly. fwiw I wrote some [machine code via mnemonics] in the '80s (admittedly not lots) and assembly sounds more
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by Joeboy 10y ago
I dunno, everything looks like vapourware until it exists. For the time being I think they're supported by EU funds and they do still seem to be making progress. I would not bet my house on it appearing though. Of course not many peopl
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by Joeboy 10y ago
There's also (possibly) the Axiom open source camera, if it ever sees the light of day.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
It's mentioned in the article and elsewhere in this thread. It looks to be just for stills, as well as being "old, experimental, somewhat faffy, and a bit buggy" according to another poster here.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
You're right, it does mention photojournalism, I should have read it more carefully. Apparently we've been at least somewhat at cross-purposes. My point about was that video journalism is likely to generate huge quantities of da
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by Joeboy 10y ago
But they do not, in general, use professional journalists who record footage using cell phones. If you get a good angle of the Trump assassination you can record it on whatever device you want and people will want it. If you're recordi
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by Joeboy 10y ago
I accept that your argument is more reasonable if you're talking about stills, but the article is about video, and presumably that's what everybody else here is talking about. > For some reason you appear to be shifting from ph
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by Joeboy 10y ago
You're talking about stills. The data requirements for video are massive. For me, in London, the most practical solution is still usually to hand the editor a USB drive in person. Yes, maybe heavily compressed 720p would be acceptable
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by Joeboy 10y ago
With hindsight this was a slightly stupid thought as you could just encrypt the file after writing it. Although that could mean it stayed unencrypted if somebody seized the camera while you were still recording.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
External recorders are still normal for professional video work, but not so much for run and gun documentary stuff.
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by Joeboy 10y ago
We're talking about Magic Lantern, which is a third party firmware hack that's not supported by Canon, so they can't do anything to the hardware. I suppose it is possible the processor accidentally supports some encryption
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by Joeboy 10y ago
Also looks (at first glance) like it's only for stills (".CR2 and .JPG").

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