twotavol

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by twotavol 10y ago
Why are you lecturing me on visual impairment and disabilities? At no point did I claim you ignore that user base. >Many of us may not particularly like touch screens, but an incredible number of computers that run Linux/BSD these d
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by twotavol 10y ago
A simple write up with screenshots or something would be nice.
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by twotavol 10y ago
>GTK 3 and QML (Qt5) would like to target the same space as web applications. It doesn't make sense. Applications which are written with a web UI in mind will translate very poorly on the desktop, and the opposite is also true. QML
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by twotavol 10y ago
> The "big buttons" are that size because people have all sorts of accessibility needs different from your own What accessibility needs are you targeting when you make the buttons and titlebars bigger? Why did this change drop
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by twotavol 10y ago
"For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set" How would this happen?
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by twotavol 10y ago
Account breaches are so god damn annoying. That coupled with the stupid rules for coming up with passwords (only 6-8 characters, a-z,A-Z,0-9 allowed!) makes it really frustrating to keep track of and manage passwords for sites like this. Hu
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by twotavol 10y ago
Even though it won't happen I sincerely hope this latest round of unintended upgrades causes some severe and costly issues for end users. Microsoft deserves nothing but hate and backlash for trying to push Windows 10 with these incredi
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by twotavol 10y ago
ffmpeg I want to be able to do some basic stuff quickly without having to search for what I need to copy and paste into the CLI or read a bunch of docs. The gui should make things like converting between formats, cropping, stitching, etc st
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by twotavol 10y ago
Eschewing the traditional application architecture has made for both a terrible development experience and poor quality applications in general. The application lifecycle is convoluted with even the Android developers joking about how confu
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by twotavol 10y ago
I can pull open inkscape and make an okay logo for an application in a few hours and have it meet all the criteria listed in that article. Its an icon. You aren't moving heaven and earth, you're just pulling verts around until you
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by twotavol 10y ago
Qt is basically unrivaled in this space in my opinion. If you really control your hardware and software, it seems like its easier for you to just comply with the LGPL requirements. You can find some other vendors for similar software with G
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by twotavol 10y ago
Google doesn't need to do anything. No matter how bad Android gets, you and the general public will lap it up. Where else are you going to go? More on topic I use the File Manager application that came with CyanogenMod. It seems pretty
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by twotavol 10y ago
Design is getting so pretentious and haughty. The icon design evolution video, the article littered with artistic buzzwords, all this song and dance for a circle in a squircle over a gradient. And the Layout, Hyperloop and Boomerang symbols
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by twotavol 10y ago
I would have called the coffee shop Deus Ex Mocha
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by twotavol 10y ago
>The apps are huge. It's like 50 MB for hello world. This doesn't sound right. Can someone else verify? I'm pretty sure I've written Android applications in QML that are far smaller. Are you sure these are release bin
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by twotavol 10y ago
Every Electron application I've used has been sluggish and straight up pathetically slow compared to any native counterparts. I think there are two reasons its picking up steam: * Your can now make your web devs (HTML/CSS/JS
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by twotavol 10y ago
Anyone know which patent they are talking about?