evJeremy - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? (Score 3, Interesting) 477

by evJeremy on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:02PM (#39104017) Attached to: A Rant Against Splash Screens

Other than that, I think there are many good usability ideas in smartphone/tablet GUIs which ought to be brought to the desktop. Not the stupid stuff like making a desktop UI look like it was intended to be used with a touchscreen, but doing away with all the superfluous confirmation dialogs. An application should not ask you whether "you really want to quit" you already told it that - instead it should make sure that when you quit nothing bad happens. If you were working on a document but didn't save that yet - then just keep the working copy when the program is closed.

Blender 3D has been doing this for years and the complaints about a missing quit dialog never seem to stop.

Comment Re:KDE 4.x and Gnome (current release) are all cra (Score 1) 224

by evJeremy on Sunday November 28, 2010 @03:16PM (#34366548) Attached to: KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look

"There is absolutely no way to install KDE 4 or Gnome without installing pulseaudio"

Stop using Ubuntu then.

Comment Re:KDE needs some competition. (Score 3, Insightful) 196

by evJeremy on Monday November 01, 2010 @03:38AM (#34086448) Attached to: KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt

Using imagemagick:
for f in *.jpg; do mogrify -profile sRGB.icc $f; mv $f `basename $f .jpg`.jpeg; done;

You'll need to supply sRGB.icc, but otherwise it seems to work just fine for me.

Comment Selling phones? (Score 1) 758

by evJeremy on Friday September 10, 2010 @08:07PM (#33541108) Attached to: Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software

Wouldn't this also make selling phones and other devices with an EULA'd OS illegal? I suppose you could just wipe the OS, but it seems like an unnecessary step.

Comment Re:OMG HOW? (Score 1) 313

by evJeremy on Friday August 20, 2010 @05:38PM (#33319264) Attached to: Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update

You have no idea how ignorant that first paragraph makes you seem.

Comment Re:Ubuntu this and Ubuntu that (Score 1) 225

by evJeremy on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @12:18AM (#33272282) Attached to: Happy 17th Birthday, Debian!

Most likely there were no drivers that complied with the debian free software guidelines. This isn't a problem for Ubuntu (and in turn mint) thanks to it being backed by Canonical, but as a more independent project it's considered too risky to include such non-free drivers in debian. It's a trivial problem to work around most of the time, but it has annoyed me in the past, just not enough to switch distros.

Comment Re:this just in: (Score 1) 199

by evJeremy on Sunday August 15, 2010 @02:08AM (#33255326) Attached to: WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox)

Curious. By my count, using KDE 4.4.5 on Debian Squeeze, it's about 0 out of a few hundred times. Which distro are you using?

Comment Re:KDE 4.4 doesn't suck? Which version are you usi (Score 1) 302

by evJeremy on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @11:24PM (#33224610) Attached to: KDE 4.5 Released

Yes, I am aware that there is a significant component of this that is Kubuntu and not KDE itself.

An understatement, to say the least. I haven't encountered a single one of those bugs on Debian Squeeze.

Comment What I really want to know.. (Score 1) 233

by evJeremy on Saturday July 31, 2010 @05:06AM (#33094000) Attached to: UK Government Rejects Calls To Upgrade From IE6

Who decided to build supposedly mission critical software as web apps to begin with, especially ones that only work in old versions of IE? It seems to defeat the whole purpose of using web apps in the first place (which I can't say I've ever understood the appeal of anyway).

Comment Re:it doesn't make any sense because (Score 1) 473

by evJeremy on Sunday July 25, 2010 @03:08PM (#33022664) Attached to: Dell Drops Ubuntu PCs From Its Website

OS X used to just have a menu item in finder, but they removed it in (I think) 10.4 for some unknown reason. Maybe they didn't want people seeing all thsoe .DS_Store and ._ files that apple likes to litter the filesystem with.

Comment Re:Hulu (Score 1) 172

by evJeremy on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @06:25PM (#32984136) Attached to: Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released

It's a good thing Firefox supports out of process plugins now, isn't it?

Comment Re:embrace and extend (Score 1) 172

by evJeremy on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @06:16PM (#32984026) Attached to: Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released

KDE is still it's own thing. Nokia simply bought Trolltech, who developed the Qt toolkit/framework that's used by KDE.

Comment Re:The best feature they could add... (Score 1) 172

by evJeremy on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @06:09PM (#32983968) Attached to: Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released

It also already exists for Konqueror, reKonq, and Arora. No plugin/addon needed.

Comment Re:Operating System Feature (Score 2, Informative) 225

by evJeremy on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:11PM (#32971450) Attached to: Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox

Uh, no one mentioned giving Acrobat root permissions. Where did you get that idea?

Comment Re:lolwut? (Score 1) 510

by evJeremy on Thursday June 03, 2010 @12:53AM (#32440810) Attached to: HTML5 vs. Flash — the Case For Flash

You do know that the web and the internet aren't the same thing, right? The web was never really supposed to be "more then a bunch of bullet pointed lists." We have/had other protocols for communications. You know, not http. Why don't people use those anymore? Why does everything have to be poorly reimplemented as a web application that never works the same across different browsers and sites?

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