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Here's a KDE Plasma 6 power feature you probably had no idea existed.

Hit Meta+T on your keyboard.

You can define tiles on each of your screens.

Now grab a window and hold shift - it will snap to the closest tile!

This way you can arrange windows on your screen(s) in a way that will keep them sharing your screen's area without ever overlapping.

Doing this manually always took so much time and was so fiddly...

You're welcome!

#KDE#Plasma#Linux

#Decentralization-wise we should all spin up single-person instances on the #Fediverse, right?

I find that a ridiculous notion. It fits well with this definition of IT:

Turn simple stuff into Rube Goldberg machines.

Want a basic "Hello world" app or website? Just spin up Google-scale infra and an entangled mess of tools and technologies.

"Here, have your own twitter platform clone so you can send 500-char msgs".

Tech complexity 'progresses' to keep our computers slow, and #usability meagre.

#Usability question: I have an interface that has separate sliders to control the gutter between columns and (optionally) the width of a vertical dividing line shown within the gutter. The width of the dividing line should not exceed the width of the gutter as otherwise it would overlap the column content. Should I:

1) Prevent the sliders being dragged to values that violate this constraint

2) When dragging a slider, update the other value to maintain this constraint

3) Something else

#notesnook just decided to "improve" tab handling.

its now completely broken on Desktop (Firefox). Tabs dont work anymore, ie. if you create a new note, it doesnt open in a new tab, instead it REPLACES the existing one. you have to EXPLICITELY open a new tab.

hooray. so basically no basic UI document handling, like ANY OTHER notetaking, no, ANY BLOODY EDITOR and just about ANY tabbed interface?!?

Lemme guess: Tested only in Chrome on Android?

#wtf#usability#gui
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My friend's original idea had morphed to something slightly more sophisticated and likely far more useable. But it definitely took two of us to get there, and my friend's observations of the elder were CRITICAL to finding a solution likely to be useful AND useable.

18/x

#usability
#inSitu

#Google is for some reason not letting me sign in to reply to a comment on a 12 year old article of mine at bsdly.blogspot.com, so I'll put it here:

The newer and better article about #OpenBSD, packages and daily tasks is "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." from 2024, nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_ins (also available tracked and prettified, link within). #openbsd #packages #usability

nxdomain.noYou Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
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So last night, while recording the preview of Kitten’s¹ improved component model², I made a silly mistake (copying raw HTML into a JavaScript function instead of wrapping it in a kitten.html`` tagged template, easy to do when you’re refactoring to pull out components from pages).

Then, once I figured out what I’d done, I made another one by forgetting to return the value from the function (easy to do when you’re used to using one-line closures as render functions).

I would have caught both of those so much faster if Kitten had helpful error messages for those two pitfalls. And guess what, this morning, it does :)

Attached are screenshot showing the before and after error messages.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ kitten.small-web.org
² Scroll up the thread to watch the video.

Let's see if I've got this right:

  • Ubuntu has been moving apps out of its apt repository in favor of the Snap store where feasible.
  • The default install includes a Software Updater app that only seems to check and update from the apt repos, and will tell you your software is all up to date.
  • The default install also includes an Ubuntu Software app which appears to be based on Gnome Software and does include the Snap Store. In fact, when you launch it, it calls itself Snap Store.
  • The Snap Store is installed through the Snap Store, which means the only way to update it is through Snap, but the Snap Store can't update itself because it's already running.

Now, I know I can update it using snap refresh. And apparently if you let it sit long enough it'll close and update itself.

But imagine the first-time Linux user confronted with this experience.

#usability#ubuntu#ux