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  • I had to look up Fitts’s law, and I’m not sure I get it. Could you explain what you mean?

    basically; the speed that it takes to click a button is dependant on the size of the button and the distance from the cursor. however, buttons at the edge of the screen have effectively infinite size, as they can’t be overshot. the most used actions should be placed there, as they are the easiest to click by muscle memory (particularly the corners, as they have infinite size in both dimensions)

    on windows, kde, cinnamon, etc.; by default the bottom left is start, the bottom right is show desktop (this one i can’t explain), and the top right is close maximised window. the top of the screen is also used for other window-related actions like minimise, restore, change csd tabs, etc.

    gnome flouts this by having most of the top of the screen doing nothing (most of it is completely empty) apart from rarely used actions like calendar and power. and the bottom right and left doing nothing[1]

    did i explain well?

    ETA: I kinda feel like mine was about KDE not being a fit for me personally, and yours was a slam on Gnome rather than a statement of personal preference.

    nah it was very much a personal thing: some people like having a minimal and clutter-free feature set; i like having as many features as possible, because then i find features i didn’t even know i liked.[2]

    as for the top bar: this one confuses me - it just seems objectively bad. but obviously it’s not as some people clearly like it. i haven’t had anyone actually explain to me why, though


    1. i mean they also ignore it in other ways, too ↩︎

    2. i didn’t know how useful a terminal embedded in the file manager would be until i started using dolphin, now i can’t do without it ↩︎








  • yeah i’m with you there. i understand why programmes do it, a one-off purchase often isn’t enough to support continued development and server costs, but i have never bought one in my life. i actually had bought pocketcasts pro, and then they went subscription only and i immediately moved to antennapod.

    topically, sync for lemmy has just released and everyone’s going wild over it. it’s a £16/year subscription. or £2/month…


  • @Zeus finder is single pane.

    ah fair enough, i misremembered. i don’t think i’ve ever used a mac system for more than 10 minutes whilst giving friends tech support

    I just don’t get how they think that’s better. 😕

    i know, it’s crap. i guess at least on mac most of the users aren’t even capable of pressing f3 to open split view (not only because macs no longer have an f3); but i don’t see why nautilus has gone down that route. it seems like such an oversight. especially as it used to exist and they removed it




  • plasma is definitely my favourite. i’m a great kde fan, i think all of their suite is much better than the gnome offering. particularly dolphin

    i’m not sure single-pane is industry standard though - all 3rd party file managers on windows support dual pane to my knowledge, and every one i can think of for linux apart from nautilus.[1] nemo’s pretty good though. i do quite like cinnamon all round, i think it beats gnome in every way (apart from wayland support)


    1. possibly even finder? not sure though ↩︎


  • i imagine it’s just that fewer options = easier to maintain. to my knowledge they were never keen on options: gtk was never officially themeable, their gtk theme is called “the only one”, they hide all their options on dconf like the windows registry, etc.

    generally treat their users like children. but to be fair, it worked for apple and it’s sort of working for them, so what do i know?



  • honestly i feel like that’s their attitude toward everything? maybe i missed the glory days of gnome, but now i see it as only useful if you’re A) a gnome developer, or B) have exactly the same workflow as a gnome developer. otherwise it’s useless unless you want a bunch of extensions that break every update