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One thing I miss about the #KDE 1 / #GNOME 1 / #MacOS 9/X days is that there were a zillion different #GUI themes, each with cool and unique looks for widgets. Gradients, drop shadows, brushed metal textures, buttons that look like glass vials full of blue liquid, you name it. GUIs actually looked cool.

Now custom themes, where they exist at all, are nothing but flat, solid, desaturated colors and rounded rectangles. It's dreadfully boring.

#PetPeeve: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in #MacOS X 10.0, #WinNT, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every #desktop uses this default: #Windows, #Mac, #FreeDesktop environments (#GNOME, #KDE), are there any exceptions? Like the #DesktopMetaphor itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.

#GUI #UserInterface #Legacy #OldManYellsAtCloud
#UnreasonableExpectations

When you change longstanding placements of navigational links, esp a social media site, it really can screw up people that rely on #a11y #UI #GUI, like moving Notifications, probably the second most clicked link in #Mastodon from under Home to other placements down on the list.

I hope they reconsider this in the final V4.4.0 release. Keep Notifications in the number two spot.

#MastoAdmin

I'm reading GitHub #34910, #34987, #35017, #34986, #35029, #35065, #35067 and #35072 to see reasoning

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@ramin_hal9001 OFC this mostly considers stuff in /etc/, /opt/, ... and is intended to be an explicit "opt-in" - style configuration managment.

For me it's more of a way to find a better & simpler alternative to #Ansible that doesn't require me to install something on the target #Server (or "#EdgeComputing node") and "just works"...

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@atpfm There was a lot of consternation from John @siracusa about parts of the screen that were neither part of the active area nor outside the active area …

Yet this is not only part of the history of paper documents — margins on written pages, typeset books, and Microsoft Word — but it was always a part of computer display systems

(My first ever Wikipedia edit decades ago was for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan …)

The early text-mode displays always had an area of the active signal that was not used for data; when 8-bit gave way to 16-bit PCs like Commodore Amiga and Apple IIgs, this “border” area became controllable and a color could be selected (via text-mode BIOS-style settings, or graphic-mode Control Panels).

And all the way into the present day, even 15 years after the death of the CRT, video editing still enforces the concepts of Action Safe and Title Safe. Historically these were huge with CRTs at 5% and 10%, then got tweaked as aspect ratios changed, then thinned out as flat panels made screen geometry more predictable.

But it never went to zero — Title Safe in particular will never reach the edge of the display, and you will never find a logo (or watermark) touching the edge of the display.

However! You still have to DESIGN to the edges, or fill it with active signal. “Shoot and protect”, as they’d say in filmmaking.

You HAVE to put something in the edges, whether it’s an adjacent graphic extending from the inner areas to the ends, or just a piece of background vision.

This kind of “wasteful” image production is completely normal outside the computer Iindustry, and is in fact universally applied in every other industry. You MUST fill in more pixels that you’ll never use, and possibly never see, in any canvas containing graphic design.

“Sorry but it’s true”, as Ja’mie would say

en.wikipedia.orgOverscan - Wikipedia