UI Bites
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Ctrl+F3
You know, the shortcut to find the next occurrence of what's selected, in most text editors?
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You know
I think you know this was wrong.
most text editors
I just tried a couple and it didn't work in either.
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Ctrl+F3
You know, the shortcut to find the next occurrence of what's selected, in most text editors?Something must be wrong. When I tried it in a text editor window I happened to have open, all that keypress did was
highlightdarken the leftmost icon in the Dock at the bottom of my screen, and add the associated application’s name in a bubble over it.
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Fine.
In most text editors I happen to use, then.
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Today YouTube has decided I need a large padding around videos.
Specially worse the smaller the video.
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Today YouTube has decided I need a large padding around videos.
CLOSED_WORK_AS_DESIGNED
This is more space for ads
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
"Sell up to 80% of the screen before inducing seizures"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
"Sell up to 80% of the screen before inducing seizures"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
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Status: Thanks to Windows being "helpful" only when it is inconvenient, it is literally impossible to select the window behind these two windows:
I guess I just need to separate them more...
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Status: Content was returned for a 404.
No fuckin' clue why this server decided to splat this garbage to a luser, but whatever. Don't use the Back/Forward buttons on your browser I guess...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: Content was returned for a 404.
No fuckin' clue why this server decided to splat this garbage to a luser, but whatever. Don't use the Back/Forward buttons on your browser I guess...
I feel like this is a server’s default 404 but not sure which, cuz it ain’t Apache’s.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: Content was returned for a 404.
No fuckin' clue why this server decided to splat this garbage to a luser, but whatever. Don't use the Back/Forward buttons on your browser I guess...
I feel like this is a server’s default 404 but not sure which, cuz it ain’t Apache’s.
Whatever SAP is running under. I eventually got kicked out in a special way and got this little thingy.
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Dear iNaturalist, that English name of the plant really looks English.
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Didn't you get the memo? bought the English language.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
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@Tsaukpaetra
SAP
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@Luhmann
Concur
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@Tsaukpaetra
Also: your expenses are right where you left them
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Status: The graphics context for one (1) of my Chrome windows has apparently died in an unexpected way.
I can resize the window and stuff inside the window is working as expected, but the image is stuck that way on the screen and ends up being stretched when I resize the window.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Status: The graphics context for one (1) of my Chrome windows has apparently died in an unexpected way.
Considering the source, Pikachu was unperturbed.
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Apple goes round
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Apple goes round
Didn't that happen like decades ago? Like, they were so fucking round the corners of the screen had software-forced rounded edges!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Apple goes round
Didn't that happen like decades ago? Like, they were so fucking round the corners of the screen had software-forced rounded edges!
What goes around comes around.
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You see, people on the Web think conventions are boring. That regular controls need to be reinvented and redesigned. They don’t believe there are any norms.
That sums up basically everything about web-based UIs.
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You see, people on the Web think conventions are boring. That regular controls need to be reinvented and redesigned. They don’t believe there are any norms.
That sums up basically everything about web-based UIs.
And it continues to only get worse from here on in.
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That sums up basically everything about web-based UIs.
Not just web-based ones. Even 20, 25 years ago, any Windows program wanting to be hip did its own UI completely unrelated to that of Windows itself. OK, that was largely limited to things like music players like Winamp, but still. Oh, and let’s not forget WindowBlinds, for when you really want to fuck with the expectations of guests using your computer.
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@Gurth the latter is just the user changing the window theming, system wide. That it’s a huge hack is necessitated by Windows not having the APIs for it.
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@topspin given that XP could do both its newer look and the classic look through themes, surely that implies at least some of the APIs do exist?
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@Arantor weren’t those private APIs, though? Or was it Vista’s Aero that required signed dlls for it.
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@topspin no idea, I never went that far down. But private APIs sound like something Microsoft got smacked down for beforehand…
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@Arantor Doing the decorations for all windows is a legitimate high privilege use case, similar to installing a custom window manager (except that it's done in the managed processes, so it's even more critical to have it trusted).
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
Apple goes round
But does the apple still fit into the
square hole
?With a big enough hammer, anything does!
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I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.
We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.
I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.
Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.
That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!
I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.
So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)
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@loopback0 Nothing's more permanent than a temporary solution.
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@loopback0 Nothing's more permanent than a temporary solution.
The moral is: If you want your solution to indeed be temporary, make sure it isn't Good Enough
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@ixvedeusi Moral is if you want your solution to indeed be temporary, wish again.
Any solution that is good enough temporarily is good enough permanently.
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@ixvedeusi said in UI Bites:
The moral is: If you want your solution to indeed be temporary, make sure it isn't Good Enough
Some 25 years ago, when I did the occasional bit of writing for a game publisher, they deliberately gave an upcoming book that they were soliciting submissions for, a ridiculous title for exactly that reason. Too often, the temporary, descriptive, but not very gripping title had ended up on a book’s cover because everybody in the office had gotten used to it.
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@Arantor weren’t those private APIs, though? Or was it Vista’s Aero that required signed dlls for it.
Windows XP had official theme support, most famously exemplified with the built in green and silver themes (alongside the normal XP blue). I had a custom one of those during the last days of XP, although I don't recall if I had to do anything special to get it to work.
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@loopback0 Wow, PTSD. Did everything go OK?
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@Arantor weren’t those private APIs, though? Or was it Vista’s Aero that required signed dlls for it.
Windows XP had official theme support, most famously exemplified with the built in green and silver themes (alongside the normal XP blue). I had a custom one of those during the last days of XP, although I don't recall if I had to do anything special to get it to work.
I was partial to the Zune theme with its black task- and title bars and orange Start button and other highlights. Never tried to make my own, though. I did make one for Windows 9x that set the cursors, sound effects, icons, and such.
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It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.
It looks perfectly reasonable to me for dialogs at the time. Maybe it could’ve gotten a make-over in the following 30 years, but I don’t think it was bad back then.
More problematic are all the other dialogs of the tiny screen size era that are fixed layout and not resizable. But instead of updating them they rewrote them in 8 incompatible incarnations of system settings.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.
We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.
I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.
Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.
That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!
I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.
So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)
I read that in his voice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikbJPI-7Kg
Not word for word, but I'm sure a little AI could fix that.
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I'm not sure if MS is trying to be subtly threatening here but it sounds hopeful.
Edit: bonus feature: the link doesn't do anything.
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Status: If only there was some possible way of reorganizing the content such that all possible elements of information were visible in such a tiny window.
Oh what's this? A scroll bar? Let's throble it...
Edit: clicking the button does what you would expect.
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@Tsaukpaetra is that IE Mode?