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    THE GUI SHOULD BE BETTER

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    10 hours ago, Tom said:

    My sincere apologies.  I can assure you that I did, carefully and repeatedly, but somehow missed it every time.  My brain gets very literally stuck in a loop sometimes, and if it missed something the first time around, it'll generally miss it on every subsequent pass as well.  It's as frustrating to me as it is to you, I promise.

    Don't worry, I very rarely take offense, and never over something that could just be a simple mistake. :)

    THE GUI SHOULD BE BETTER

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    On 6/16/2020 at 5:40 AM, Tom said:

    I'm going to go out on a limb here, since your computer sits centrally and you didn't mention a pen or pencil anywhere

    You apparently didn't read very carefully...

    On 6/16/2020 at 2:56 AM, BTGBullseye said:

    a note pad and pen

     

    THE GUI SHOULD BE BETTER

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    Posted · Edited by BTGBullseye (see edit history)

    On 6/15/2020 at 1:25 AM, Ross Scott said:

    Well first, I've had this since 2002-ish, so I would have had to wait 13 years for Windows to give me what I wanted.  Second, I admit I could be an idiot here, but could you tell me how to enable it?  It doesn't do that by default.  I just did a test on 10 and tried copying a bunch of files, the second job started immediately, wasn't queued.  I saw the option to PAUSE a transfer, that's it.  I admit, I'm either stupid on this or Windows 10 does not support queued file transfers.

    It doesn't. I use Teracopy myself for that functionality.

    21 hours ago, Tom said:

    One semi-personal point I think may be of interest: I find the traditional "Desktop Metaphor" GUI works best for me, switching to command prompt when necessary, but one thing that stuns me is how few people ever actually attempt to use one like a real, physical desktop, which was the whole point of the thing in the first place.  Much like my actual desk, I regard the "desktop" folder on my system as the space to put what I'm dealing with right now - work in progress (and stuff to be processed ASAP, which on a real desk might go in an "in" tray) sits on the desktop, and whenever possible I try to have the desktop totally cleared and tidied away by the end of the day or when I shut down.

    Once you get back to the fundamental inspiration for designing the "Desktop" GUI in the first place, I feel a lot of design decisions for the default installed configuration, most likely to feel "natural" to the maximum number of people, immediately become pretty obvious; for example, permanent launcher icons for programs have no place on such a desktop - you wouldn't drill a hole right in the middle of your actual desk and install a button there - but temporary folders you're working on today, and mounted volumes of USB sticks and removable drives, do.  Desk tidys like "my computer" are more of a matter of taste; some people have sitting neatly on their desk, others prefer to keep everything in a drawer.

    I have a great many things in the middle of my physical desk top. Since I have a computer on it, I have my monitor in the middle, with a power monitor below, (have to monitor my wattage since the entire basement is on the same 15A breaker, and I have to compete with a microwave, refrigerator, lights, and everything else plugged in down here) mouse, and keyboard. (keyboard has space front to back so I can reposition for if I'm eating/doing something at my desk besides using the PC) To the right I have a flashlight, some lens cleaning fluid, a microfiber cloth, a note pad and pen, a lighter, and a trash can. To the left, a glass for water, some headphones, a power switch for my rope light, a printer, my fingernail care kit, a sewing kit, blood pressure monitoring device, game controllers, and a book.

     

    99% of what I have placed will never be moved from that location, only utilized in position. This is how the majority of people use their desks, they place things where they will use them, and then don't move them from that location. (placing them elsewhere is inefficient, as is having to move them every time you intend to use them)

    Linux

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    On 6/10/2020 at 2:13 PM, ym123 said:

    Another example, yesterday I wanted to organize my torrents, so I moved some into another folder using transmission's ui, only to realize the transmission only moved the torrents' content, not the files I had also created in their folders (which makes sense I guess), again the fix was easy, use rsync and shell globbing to automatically sync the two folders and then delete old ones ` for i in *; do rsync -axuv --remove-source-files --progress ~/Drive/"$i"/ "$i"; done`.
    Something that would've taken half an hour (~100 torrents) took 3 minutes.
    GUIs just can't be composed like that, and those tasks may seem pretty rare, but similar ones come up often enough that GUIs lack of ability to perform them is extremely annoying.

    Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, go back and Shift-Del the originating files. Takes me all of 10 seconds if I'm going slow. Even maintains folder trees without issue. You're really not well versed in GUI capabilities or current functionality if you think that it doesn't have the ability to do stuff like that.

    On 6/10/2020 at 2:13 PM, ym123 said:

    Also, who said that you have to type everything? why not have them bound to keyboard shortcuts and aliases? 😛 

    That's what a GUI is supposed to be. It's basically just mouse gestures and clicks to perform functions that you would otherwise have to type. If it's not doing that, there's something very seriously wrong with your GUI design, since that's been how it works since the first ever GUI.

    On 6/10/2020 at 2:13 PM, ym123 said:

    it is just that it has a lot of merits that shouldn't be ignored, and that will potentially be lost if linux ever goes "mainstream". 

    It has many merits, but so many pitfalls that it's never in any situation going to become the primary UI for a majority of users. It will always be an extremely small minority that prefer it to GUI. The CLI will not be lost, no matter what. Even MacOS and Windows 10 have a CLI in them, but it's never used as the primary interface because it's slower to type text than it is to click thrice and move the cursor around the screen for a second or two for the vast majority of people, even those with fast typing speeds.

    THE GUI SHOULD BE BETTER

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    Posted · Edited by BTGBullseye (see edit history)

    Ross,

     

    I know some other responses point out that browsers are giving issues with the copy/paste function, but I personally resolved the issue 100% when I got my new keyboard. Don't ask me how it resolved the mouse click menu copy function, but it fixed that too. Maybe it's because I got a keyboard that has software that can change the USB polling rate to 1000 times per second instead of the standard of 125, (kinda like my mouse) and it affects how Windows interacts with everything, I don't know.

     

    As for your final questions, I personally really loved the Vista default look in transparent black/grey. (apart from some slightly too low contrast text, but you could change that quite easily with utilities built into Windows at the time) I loathe the push towards a flat UI like they did in 10. (3D is far superior, as our brains were designed to operate in that environment) Physical buttons for this are always going to be far more natural as well, and I really like the idea of the nested icon wheel coming up on the desktop. It's like the weapon/item wheel that you'll see in a lot of modern shooter games.

     

    We do need the ability to have the "helicopter" style GUI system though, as it can be incredibly useful, and is definitely not a problem for the majority of people, and for most twitch-shooter gamers, it's not difficult to get those "headshots" on those smaller icons/checkboxes when doing faster movements. (something I find remarkably easy to do the vast majority of the time considering how many typos I need to fix when typing)

    Last post made wins

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    On 6/8/2020 at 3:54 PM, Im_CIA said:

    Riddle me this, forum.

    Police is controlled on the local level.

    The Democrats have held the cities with the most instances of police brutality for generations.

     

    So why is everyone shifting blame on El Blumpfo like he's some orange political pinata?

     

    Easy, they want to hate Trump more than they want the problems fixed. It's been that way throughout the entire "anything but Trump" campaign.

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