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Paul Chambers🚧

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

Mastodon Notification in the list is the second row, under the home button
Mastodon notifications are now under Home >Trending>Live Feeds
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@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"...

#edgecomputing
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Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥

@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
#underscan#overscan#titlesafe
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argv minus one

I recently saw someone say that a user interface is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it's not very good.

That person obviously never took the #Windows 3.1 tutorial! #Microsoft explained all about their fancy new “Windows” thing and how to use it, all the way down to little details like how to dismiss a menu without selecting anything. Windows 3.1 Help also had a wealth of detailed explanations of #GUI concepts.

And yes, Windows 3.1 was good. Very, very good.

#UI#UX#retrocomputing
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