Fuck you Microsoft and your extremely narrow world-view
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icon-only taskbar
This is the only Windows feature I miss in every damned window manager ever. I have a dock installed just so I can get that.
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This is the only Windows feature I miss in every damned window manager ever.
Doesn't KDE have it?
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I don't think so?
Actually, there was a plugin I found referenced all over the place but I couldn't find it for the version of KDE I was running at the time.
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Feh. Once you go Foobar, you never go back.
Right, because you move on to the Zune software or something else equally horrible just to cleanse your palate.
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Which version of Vista did you use?
Premium, I think. Or some other. Can't remember now. Sorry, my memory is rather hazy about the whole thing (most vividly I remember all the problems with drivers and games), but wasn't Vista taskbar the same as Windows 7 taskbar? If not, then sorry - I meant Windows 7, not Vista.
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but wasn't Vista taskbar the same as Windows 7 taskbar?
Well, no.
Vista still had quick launch and text next to your open applications. Basically just XP, but prettier - and with PREVIEWS!
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and with PREVIEWS!
And Windows users were so smug about it, and we Linux folk laughed because we had it for ages in Beryl.
Then we cried ourselves to sleep because we realized we spent hours of our lives compiling Beryl just to get previews and a cube everyone turned off after a week...
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What about wobbly windows?
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Back in 98 times, and then in XP times (I skipped everything in between)
That would just be Windows ME,¹ which only one person I knew ever used — and as I recall, he got rid of it after a few months in favour of going back to 98. (I still haven’t got round to trying it in a VM, despite having owned install discs for it for years.)¹ Only considering consumer-oriented Windowses here.
Also, it's not quite the same as my problem. In OP, I wanted to compare several entries to find out what's the difference between them
True, but it comes close enough since I see several seemingly identical names in your screenshot, which presumably differ at some point after the start of the ellipsis. Having that in the middle tends to be handier:
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True, but it comes close enough since I see several seemingly identical names in your screenshot, which presumably differ at some point after the start of the ellipsis.
Yes, and I don't even know what the difference is. That's the most important point.Having that in the middle tends to be handier
In general, yes - but works only if the difference is at the end.
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Well, yeah, there’s always going to be cases where one will cause problems that the other solves :) But filenames of similar or related files tend to be the same at the start and in the middle, but differ at the end, so having the ellipsis in the middle is probably going to solve more problems than putting it at the end will.
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It's not filename. It's ridiculously prolonged enterprisey microsofty dotnety uninstaller entry.
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Just checked on Win7 and I am unsure why the fuck you would ever right click on it.
I've gotten used to my win8/win10 boxes, so I keep trying to do that on my win7 box. "Fuck. Wrong system. Again."
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text next to your open applications
Still available:
I like my taskbar on the side, as any sane person with a 16x9 screen should, so I haven't even realized you can do this before.
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I wonder what you're doing right now that you had this particular xkcd open.
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I wonder what you're doing right now that you had this particular xkcd open.
Archive binging, duh. I've got plenty of unfilled bars on ComicRocket.
Filed under: public service announcement: no matter how hard you try, xkcd will not help you hack your crush's facebook
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Looks like he's playing Anti-Idle and programming Discoursistency.
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But neither of these is as weird.
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I like my taskbar on the side, as any sane person with a 16x9 screen should
High five.Are you a leftie or a rightie?
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Are you a leftie or a rightie?
On the right at work, and I have a two-monitor setup at home so I just put them on both outside edges.
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It no longer quacks like a duck but performs the same general functions. Therefore, either it is a duck that's been braindamaged or is actually a goose who has killed the duck and assumed its identity.
That is the best quote I've read all day <snall>At 1AM...
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I like my taskbar on the side, as any sane person with a 16x9 screen should, so I haven't even realized you can do this before.
But hot corners!
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I have my taskbar on the right side of the screen.
I think you'll find the biggest problem is hitting scrollbars.
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Ah, OK, they look like filenames to me. In any case the problem seems to be the same: the name is mostly similar at the start and in the middle. That, and they’re not exactly making optimum use of the available space to show these names, are they?
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see what my options are.
You are more adventurous than 61% of programmers, and more than 98% average consumers!
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FUCKING BUTTON
No button I have ever used stays pressed while popping up a menu for me to click within.
By golly, you're right! It's actually a DropDownMenuItem misnamed as "Button"! The horror! Now everyone will get confused that people don't call it the Start DropDownMenuItem! Oh no!Side note: I opened Microsoft Narrator, which apparently doesn't know how to interrupt itself when it gets too far behind narrating what you're doing. I clicked the Start Menu DropDownMenuItem, which prompted it to list off all 20 items in the MRU list, the fact that I had an All Programs item, and all the various
buttonsMenuItems on the right side of the start menu, as well as the fact that this is my start menu, and that I was focused on the Search bar. It took 45 seconds for it to do all this at max speed, and I'm wondering how accessible Windows really is if that's what a built-in thing (that you first encounter, supposedly, when beginning to start a program) decides you need to know when clicking it.
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Real disabled people use commercial screen readers that blow much less.
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Real disabled people use commercial screen readers that blow much less.
QTF.
MS Narrator is so full of itself I wondered for a second how it got past Q.A. testing at all. And this thing has been upgraded I think each time (or, at least each new SAPI version)!
Edit: "Contains Chrome Legacy Window" is not a very good description of the page I'm on, Narrator!
Filed under: Still doesn't work with Chrome, despite Chrome apparently having accessibility features?
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Im pretty sure Narrator is just Microsoft's internal check on their accessibility APIs. Probably part of a unit test harness that got productized when marketing saw it in a demo somewhere.
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marketing saw it in a demo somewhere.
And yet it keeps getting more ambiguous. I mean, what does this even mean/do?
You mean, if ten whole minutes of queued speech is in the buffer, I can choose to listen to it ramble on for that long? Or, in other words, I can perform enough actions to fill a ten minute window of speech before it stops accepting new speech into the buffer (which, presumably allows more input as soon as it falls below ten minutes).
So, not only does it allow that much content to sit there rambling on, but that I might indeed miss some of said content if it was introduced too quickly?
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Sheesh, that's even worse! You're knocking out the close and show desktop shortcuts...
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It has less value on Linux because you don't need to run so many different (GUI) apps than on Windows as most things happen in a terminal at least for me.
True story.
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One thing I miss about the old-school Start menu and fucked-up-random-maybe program layout.
I would get used to the keystrokes by going over a mnemonic related to the program I wanted.
So, for example, if I wanted to run MySQL Query Browser, I knew by heart:
START, P
M,M,M,M (takes me to the MySQL folder, after passing over 3 non-MySQL folders in the Start Menu)
ENTER ENTER- (expands the folder, then executes the first program-- of course being MySQL Query Browser)And I'd know it because I'd have the cadence down:
("Start, Programs")-- they all started like that, of course
MMy
MS
MQ
ML
ENTER Query
ENTER BrowserTyping it out I'm pretty sure it sounds like I save skin cells to keep them from The Government. But it worked. =(
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I miss about the old-school Start menu
Binding shortcuts to hotkeys.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Z Baby, yeah!Nowadays, I pin a program and just press +2 or whatever position...
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It has less value on Linux because you don't need to run so many different (GUI) apps than on Windows as most things happen in a terminal at least for me.
Currently:
- two browsers
- Sublime Text
- Multiple terminal emulators tiled all around the place / on different workspaces
- mail client
- IRC client, because waste of time is important
- several random spreadsheets and text documents I'm dealing with before I put it into the issue tracker myself, because no one else will
- two softphones connected to different SIP servers
Often used, just not opened currently:
- QtCreator
- Wireshark
- screenshot tool
So... yeah, I have plenty of GUI programs open, along with like 6 terminal windows.
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Sheesh, that's even worse! You're knocking out the close and show desktop shortcuts...
I don't know what you mean about a close shortcut, but to show desktop I can just move the mouse to the lower-right corner of the screen.
I always hit Win+D anyway.Wait, are you talking about gestures on Windows version more recent than 7? I don't know anything about those.
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Fuck you Microsoft
No, fuck developers that make their software available only on non-free OS
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WTF is up with deleting their posts lately?
Personally, I blame Microsoft.
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WTF is up with deleting their posts lately?
Personally, I blame Microsoft.
they don't even have their edit history public like proper goddess fearing forum goers so we can't even see what it was that they deleted!
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Well, I know @Spanky587 deleted pretty much the identical post, might have been missing the , not sure. I know because... well, notice the like up there.
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Well, I know @Spanky587 deleted pretty much the identical post, might have been missing the , not sure. I know because... well, notice the like up there.
I was trying to quote part of the post I was replying to but it kept coming out fucked up. Don't know if it was the fault of Discourse or me. So I gave up.
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@Onyx said:
WTF is up with deleting their posts lately?
Personally, I blame Microsoft.
they don't even have their edit history public like proper goddess fearing forum goers so we can't even see what it was that they deleted!
④ is the best trust level number!
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④ is the best trust level number!
be that as it may, they won't accept my application.
something about.... how did they phrase it.... ah yes... "maturity issues" i think it was.
I DO NOT HAVE MATURITY ISSUES!
/me stomps off holding a blankie and crying
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be that as it may, they won't accept my application.
There's no such thing as an application.
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did you have to ruin my joke?
:-P
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I don't know what you mean about a close shortcut
I think he means that when the close button is all the way in the top-right corner, you can just throw your mouse cursor and hit it, but if there's something else there (like the start button or whatever else is in your taskbar) you have to spend some non-zero effort finding the x with the mouse.