Zeus

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

jpegxl actually has pretty good support - affinity, photoshop, gimp, krita, etc. all support it fine

it's only chrome/electron that's holding it back (even firefox supported it until chrome dropped support). i don't think it's lazyness

i have no love for gif (hence i use apng), but all the other alternatives are either videos so show controls by default, not widely supported, or webp. i realise webp is objectively the better format for most things, but i still argue it's existence is a net negative effect

webp may be open (although actually i'd argue it isn't, the licences for the decoder and the format itself are both very woolly), but as it's actively contributing to enshittification by holding back truly open formats i'd say that doesn't really matter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

now whilst i know why people like webp, maybe we could stop using formats owned by google..

until jpegxl becomes viable (which it mainly isn't because it compete[s/d] with webp), lets stick to nice formats not owned by tech giants, like apng^?^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

#titlebar { display: none !important; }?

but more seriously you might be able to debug using the browser toolbox (ctrl+alt+shift+i); or you might try asking on [email protected] (or [email protected])

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

thank you!

and yeah i agree, i use the share menu (at least firefox allows opening links from the sharesheet) but it would be nice to have it as an option

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

nah, i agree with you. win explorer with qttabbar, tortoisegit, and some tweaks from winaerotweaker

dolphin is pretty good though and it has some features that explorer doesn't, like a terminal pane

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

but ...surely you could just do the same thing with the old design? artist's rendition:

in fact, now i look at it, it makes them look even more similar once i collapse the sidebar

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

meh, subjectively i find that creates a "worst of both worlds" situation. but this comment was more about the futility of the development time that went into this specific feature

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

maybe; but if the location of menu buttons hints at their use then the hamburger should collapse the side drawer like the one on e.g. youtube, but i doubt it does

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I had to look up Fitts’s law, and I’m not sure I get it. Could you explain what you mean?

basically; the speed that it takes to click a button is dependant on the size of the button and the distance from the cursor. however, buttons at the edge of the screen have effectively infinite size, as they can't be overshot. the most used actions should be placed there, as they are the easiest to click by muscle memory (particularly the corners, as they have infinite size in both dimensions)

on windows, kde, cinnamon, etc.; by default the bottom left is start, the bottom right is show desktop (this one i can't explain), and the top right is close maximised window. the top of the screen is also used for other window-related actions like minimise, restore, change csd tabs, etc.

gnome flouts this by having most of the top of the screen doing nothing (most of it is completely empty) apart from rarely used actions like calendar and power. and the bottom right and left doing nothing[^1]

did i explain well?

ETA: I kinda feel like mine was about KDE not being a fit for me personally, and yours was a slam on Gnome rather than a statement of personal preference.

nah it was very much a personal thing: some people like having a minimal and clutter-free feature set; i like having as many features as possible, because then i find features i didn't even know i liked.[^2]

as for the top bar: this one confuses me - it just seems objectively bad. but obviously it's not as some people clearly like it. i haven't had anyone actually explain to me why, though

[^1]: i mean they also ignore it in other ways, too

[^2]: i didn't know how useful a terminal embedded in the file manager would be until i started using dolphin, now i can't do without it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

as someone who's not scared of computers, i have no idea what they do. i assume the right one is icons/list/compact[^1] not a waffle menu, but the hamburger and kebab? i have no clue

[^1]: though why it's showing list when the current view is icons, i don't know either

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

every time i try to use gnome, i end up spending all my time going "dammit, where are all the bleeding features"

(also the lack of fitts' law adherence due to that pointless bar at the top)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

yep, that's me

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