UI Bites
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@topspin No, you a second-person pronoun.
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
@topspin No, you a second-person pronoun.
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I am offended how many characters were made available to answer a
[Y/N]
question.
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@Tsaukpaetra If I counted right, exactly enough to answer "FileNotFound".
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@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra If I counted right, exactly enough to answer "FileNotFound".
OMG!!!!
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Status: Great UI....
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@Tsaukpaetra not sure if you know, but you lost your network connection
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@Tsaukpaetra Your game is running on ?
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I'd like to have a look the the categories.
Oops, I missed.
No problem, I'll just move further to the right.
WHARRGARBL
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What time zone? 10 AM was three and a half hours ago!
Why do so many find it so difficult to just indicate a UTC time? It's not hard!
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@kazitor If that is a YouTube livestream embed, it's supposed to be your local timezone as detected by your browser. But, it will continuously show that message until the broadcaster actually starts the stream, and they may be running behind. Normally it shows a countdown instead if it's before the start time.
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Je ne comprend pas
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move further to the right.
You nazi!
What an accusation, he must be führer-ious
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Ass. Creed:
One of them works...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
Ass. Creed:
One of them works...
One of them is "close" as in "close to the right one" and one of them is "close" as in "this actually closes it".
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Behold the radio box!
KDE 5.
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@boomzilla It could be multiselect, and applying the audiostream to all selected devices?
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@PleegWat that does not appear to work. Even holding down control while clicking. As soon as I click the popup goes away and the previous selection is gone.
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Changing the shape of the ugly background shape that Android puts behind icons will also change unrelated UI elements. But my bigger issue with this is that they don't let you turn the bloody things off entirely and just see the normal icons, the way they're supposed to be. Luckily Nova Launcher has that setting, but IIRC it's behind some hidden experimental mode.
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@hungrier But it's consistent! Everyone wants consistent!
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@hungrier That's called innovation. You'll get used to it.
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@kazitor "sherikádol ungèg" - what's that language? Google translate thinks it's Uzbek, but then translates it with "sherikádol ungèg". Microsoft translator thinks it's English and translates it with "sherikádol ungèg", too.
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@BernieTheBernie Have you met @ben_lubar?
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@kazitor perplexing complexity of failure, wasn't it?
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@loopback0 said in What users say versus what they mean:
About 2 results
There are exactly 2 results.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in What users say versus what they mean:
About 2 results
There are exactly 2 results.
Are you sure you won't get a different count if you try it multiple times? I wouldn't be surprised if search results were a bit non-deterministic these days
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in What users say versus what they mean:
About 2 results
There are exactly 2 results.
Are you sure you won't get a different count if you try it multiple times? I wouldn't be surprised if search results were a bit non-deterministic these days
They're only non-deterministic until you go down a few pages. Then it knows there aren't millions of results but only 21.
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Would it not be better to replace the first two buttons with "1" and "2" respectively, and omit the last entirely? The pages do indeed number 1–6.
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But my bigger issue with this is that they don't let you turn the bloody things off entirely and just see the normal icons, the way they're supposed to be
It's always worked for me. On stock Android, anyway. Samsung crams everything into squircles. But stock Android doesn't transform icons for me.
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Would it not be better to replace the first two buttons with "1" and "2" respectively, and omit the last entirely? The pages do indeed number 1–6.
Not really. Because then you lose the next/back buttons. I don't have to move my mouse (in theory, vertical scrolling and all) to go to the next page.
(and, yes, I use next/back - because visually they're easier to find then determining which page is active and clicking the next)
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@pie_flavor said in UI Bites:
But my bigger issue with this is that they don't let you turn the bloody things off entirely and just see the normal icons, the way they're supposed to be
It's always worked for me. On stock Android, anyway. Samsung crams everything into squircles. But stock Android doesn't transform icons for me.
My previous phone didn't. But my new one, with the latest stock Android 9, only allows "adaptive" icons (i.e. ones with stupid shapes) in the default launcher.
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YouTube is doing another survey. The previous question asked me how much I used these services and I put Never for the three obvious ones. Now it won't let me continue unless I lie and say "actually, never mind, I do use these services after all!"
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@LB_ if only there were a way to block ads...
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@LB_: This screenshot is an obvious fake. Everybody knows Google only hire geniuses, they couldn't mess up such simple logic
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@Zerosquare I don't think even Google can find enough decent frontend devs for a website of this size.
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@Zerosquare I don't think even Google can find enough decent frontend devs for a website of this size.
Should’ve used Google Forms.
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Google introduced the requirement to “bring consistency and a cleaner look to Google Play” by making all icons rounded squares. The change will affect the store on both Android and Chrome OS. Further, the change prohibits transparent backgrounds. Google also dynamically adds rounded corners and drop shadows to icons.
But what if I want to have a nice looking icon?
Your Google account, as well as all related accounts, commercial and personal, will be permanently banned
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"Show the Windows Installer log".
Given that's not a checkbox, a link, a button, or any other type of actionable widget whatsoever, I guess it's... a suggestion?
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It briefly flashed as a checkbox when I pressed Finish, so I tried again — and the installation failed again — and this time I held the Finish button and moved the mouse cursor away before releasing. A checkbox spontaneously appeared.
Next time around I hovered where I expected the checkbox to be and there it was.
So I think it could have been TeamViewer playing tricks on me.Still, clicking the label should toggle the checkbox.
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Google introduced the requirement to “bring consistency and a cleaner look to Google Play” by making all icons rounded squares. The change will affect the store on both Android and Chrome OS. Further, the change prohibits transparent backgrounds. Google also dynamically adds rounded corners and drop shadows to icons.
But what if I want to have a nice looking icon?
Your Google account, as well as all related accounts, commercial and personal, will be permanently bannedI wonder what they'll do with Play Store.
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Google Search Console tells me there's a page on my website with a hyperlink that leads to a 404, and it's obnoxiously begging me to fix this. But nowhere will Google Search Console tell me what page, what hyperlink, and what target URL is causing the problem.
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It's Easter. Instead of hunting eggs, why don't you hunt 404s this year?
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Google introduced the requirement to “bring consistency and a cleaner look to Google Play” by making all icons rounded squares. The change will affect the store on both Android and Chrome OS. Further, the change prohibits transparent backgrounds. Google also dynamically adds rounded corners and drop shadows to icons.
But what if I want to have a nice looking icon?
Your Google account, as well as all related accounts, commercial and personal, will be permanently bannedDon't be
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New minor UI s:
My phone was stolen, so I go to my Google account to wipe as much data from it as I can.
Introductory : I found at least 2 different buttons to erase data, with slightly different wordings and slightly different descriptions. There is no logic as to how I ended up finding them, I just followed various links in various parts of my account. Do they do different things? Do I need to do one and the other, one or the other, in a specific order, is there a 3rd option that I missed? Who knows...
Main : the thief has, of course, turned off the phone immediately, so Google can't locate it, and can't erase it either. Makes sense. But when you get to the option to erase in your Google account and click it, you get one final confirmation prompt ("are you sure?") and upon clicking "yes", you get... nothing. The prompt disappears, there is no feedback that it did something or not. I guess popping up something along the lines of "request will be processed as soon as your phone is back on line" would be too hard. I mean, it's so hard that they manage to send me an email with that exact message. But writing it on the webpage that I'm currently looking at? No, why would you do that? After all, you'll get a notification when you get an email, right? You'll be able to see that notification on the screen of the phone that, um, has been stolen and is turned off. Why would you need more feedback?
So I've apparently requested that my phone be erased no less than 9 times total. I guess next time it will be turned on, it will really be erased...
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Introductory : I found at least 2 different buttons to erase data, with slightly different wordings and slightly different descriptions. There is no logic as to how I ended up finding them, I just followed various links in various parts of my account. Do they do different things? Do I need to do one and the other, one or the other, in a specific order, is there a 3rd option that I missed? Who knows...
I also lost my phone recently, as it happens. Sadly I got to the "Find My Device" page literally five minutes after the battery presumably ran out...
I didn't see much ambiguity. One option removes the Google account from the phone and by extension removes Google synced data like e-mail. The other is the more drastic option and wipes the whole phone. There may be regional differences though.
So I've apparently requested that my phone be erased no less than 9 times total. I guess next time it will be turned on, it will really be erased...
Hoping the same (though my devices are fully encrypted, so I'm not worried about other people having my data, I'm just bemoaning the loss of years of text message history, which is frequently useful to search for stuff...).
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@heterodox said in UI Bites:
I'm just bemoaning the loss of years of text message history, which is frequently useful to search for stuff...
FWIW, not that it helps at all now, SMS Backup and Restore does a damn good job of what it says
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@sloosecannon said in UI Bites:
@heterodox said in UI Bites:
I'm just bemoaning the loss of years of text message history, which is frequently useful to search for stuff...
FWIW, not that it helps at all now, SMS Backup and Restore does a damn good job of what it says
Also, if you feel like switching to a new SMS app, Pulse SMS does backup online automatically (and lets you do a bunch of other stuff too). Nominal monthly fee but it's good stuff.
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@sloosecannon said in UI Bites:
@heterodox said in UI Bites:
I'm just bemoaning the loss of years of text message history, which is frequently useful to search for stuff...
FWIW, not that it helps at all now, SMS Backup and Restore does a damn good job of what it says
Yeah, no, I had Signal taking regular backups (and Titanium Backup taking everything else), I just... never moved them off my phone. I updated and customized the phone before that one (Nexus 5) a lot more frequently and remembered to pull off backups whenever I did. Since I switched to a Pixel I fell out of the habit. Nothing like a data loss to make you take stock of your backup routine...
On the flip side, moved to Pixel 3 so there's that, I suppose... (Friend told me it was a bad time to pick up a new phone because 5G will roll out soon, but I didn't really have a choice...)