It's actually a GTK problem. At least, that the keys don't work as expected. Focus is nearly random in GTK. I've been doing GTK development, and I've decided that it would just be easier disabling my application and anything in it from EVER receiving focus, than to actually make an attempt to deal with GTK's focus problems.

The problem with GNOME, is that there's no reason it should ever give you a dialog box that is bigger than the screen. It's just unfuckingexcusable.

There is no confirmation box when you change resolutions. At least on the two Ubuntu systems I am unfortunatly stuck with dealing with.

Interesting. I can't even USE Firefox on a computer with less than 8Gig of RAM. How do you live?

...except that, i think as you well know, you'll never know if "OK" or "apply" are the selected focus things in GNOME, or if "Enter" will toggle some checkbox. Or press Cancel. Or change tabs.

so why is it, exactly, that the box takes up more than the whole screen? Oh, because no one thought about that. And when people did find it, the programmers ignore it.

That is in the control panel in 7, I believe it was in Vista. It's also been a feature of windows since 3.0.

That's a hardware issue.

which are things that most os devs aren't even going to take into account. The user interfaces are terrible. Even if you know exactly what you're doing, when something goes wrong, the debug interfaces are also terrible. A recent experience, my gf had "calibre" crashing all the time. It's crash info was absolutely useless, without telling you anything about where or why it was crashing, only that it "could not parse" a file, and gave a dump of information that actually pointed to things inside the python libs as the problem. That wasn't actually the problem, the problem was that calibre just could not handle some input form that was perfectly valid, but it didn't understand.

Remember OS/2? A better Windows than Windows?

Where is it now?

Linux is NOT improving at a breakneck speed. Linux is actually becoming worse, at a fairly quick pace.

The kernel is irreleavnt to the average user. And to even the vast majority of non-average users. It's just plain irrelevant.
As long as we are stuck using terrible software inside Linux, Linux is terrible.

so.. don't upgrade. Are you retarded?

Former Linux advocate.

Linux is unusable, compared to Windows 7.

Absolutely. Unusuable. Linux is only fit to be installed as a system where you will likely never need to mess with it's software ever again after you have it running.

An added point here, is that pretty much through the whole 2.3 and 2.4 kernels, Alan might as well have been the head of kernel development. I haven't kept up with 2.6, but Linus has pretty much always been terrible, depending on everyone else in the community to fix the utter crap that he half-wits.

I can pick up 100 blank CDR around here for around $10, sometimes less if on sale. CD-RWs are virtually unfindable in my local area, at retail, and DVD-R's are around $30 for a $10 pack. It's a bit bizarre.

Then again, none of my writers actually work right, so.. don't really care much.

I think submitter believes that GPL is specifically something having to do with Linux. Damn kids.

Back in the days before there was Linux, we used the GNU tools on BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, on AIX (where we could get them to work), on IRIX, on .. whatever NeXT's OS was called.. and virtually every piece of software there was that didn't come with the operating systems that was on each system was GPL.

Trust that there will soon be hand-held digital battery powered TVs, I would expect. I wouldn't expect a market like that to disappear.