shaan7

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   by shaan7 7y ago

   Um, I tested both on Chrome and Firefox and can't see any ads.
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   > So, do you think these beginners would care about the size of this "app" that they'll probably delete as soon as it finishes Well, looks like enough people care (or at least noticed) https://imgur.com/LV6
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   > or not for normal people Given that the documentation you're reading is for sysadmins, it shouldn't be a surprise that its not targeted to end-users (assuming that is what you meant by "normal people") > but it’s
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   There is Sailfish which won't be affected by the US government https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/mobile-tabs/hua...
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   Thanks. I realized it too late :(
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   > expensive phones that don't allow SD cards Oh 21st century, what have you done.
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   by shaan7 7y ago

   Slower than Dropbox but much, MUCH faster than Google Drive.
8. 248.▲
   by shaan7 7y ago

   I used to have the same problem. Then I discovered NextcloudPi which automatically updates (and has other nice things like automatic setup for Letsencrypt).
9. 249.▲
   by shaan7 7y ago

   Try Nextcloud, the UI is quite good (both the website and the app).
10. 250.▲
    by shaan7 8y ago

    LOL. I see what you did there xD
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > it's a whole bunch of angry people arguing about Electron sucking, about why the app is 100mb, about how C++ and Qt would be better FWIW, KDE Plasma already has something similar to Lofi that I use daily https://i.imgur
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > Right now, they're all Qt/C++ experts I wish ..
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Ah yes, my bad -.-
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > Software solves business problems Not entirely correct. Software solves problems in general, they don't have to be business problems. > Software does not exist to please us as programmers Nope. Examples: Pretty much any good de
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Yep, the only thing that I miss in Gaana is a desktop app (which Spotify has).
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Yes that is indeed a problem, but not unsolvable. Customization usually doesn't mean radically changing things. Its more about moving UI elements around or changing a List into a Grid etc. A combination of "new" highlight wit
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    The controls themselves are standard Qt Quick Controls 2 items. We didn't need to invent anything new. However, we do have custom styling for each control (buttons, checkboxes etc). If you want a native desktop look'n'feel th
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Another good example is Blizzard's Battle.net app https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/apps/battle.net/desktop
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    QML with QtQuick Controls 2
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Oops, I'll check whats up with that. Meanwhile https://www.sostronk.com/assets/tilt-ca31719ca134cbaf.png
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    For folks who are new to Qt5 and are wondering how an app looks in production, we have a screenshot at https://www.sostronk.com/app We released SoStronk's desktop app using Qt5 in 2014 and its going great today as well
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > Also excessive styling of elements seems to be needed Um, not really. The inbuilt Universal style looks pretty good by default.
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Most software in the 90s were highly customizable and a joy to use because of that. I don't remember customization adding a lot of complexity to desktop applications (having worked with classic VB6, VB.NET (WPF) and Qt4). The complexit
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    And popularity will happen only if the problems go away :P
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Yep ^
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    As long as you don't connect a 1080p monitor to your laptop ;)
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    Its easier said than done though. We started following this few years back but then while it was "few lines away" originally, code evolved and now there are parts where its 20+ lines away. This means that short var names need to b
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    OTOH, its equally important to stress on this section of the post- "Not that we can do without abstraction. We need it to be able to write code at all" In the last 4-5 years I encountered a lot of such "hate" against abs
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    > Why is it that people seem to think using a cross-platform UI toolkit like tkinter, kivy, WxWindows, etc. is like putting their hand in a toilet? Um because a lot of them already know HTML/CSS/JS (because they've worked
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    by shaan7 8y ago

    There is Mattermost https://mattermost.com/