Then just google for doudou instead of doo-doo, and pronounce it dow dow...
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They even give a solution for the sensitive Americans: call it "dow dow" and forget about how is pronounced in French.
Nor clipping paths.
For print, there is not really an "open" alternative that is as good as TIFF.
does not work here on a mac, but i can think of using it!
thanks for mentioning.
I have to admit, that -- at some time in the past -- I've even tried to activate vim mode. As a heavy vim user i thought it would make sense.
At the end I'm stuck with the Emacs-inspired (is it really Emacs?) shortcuts.
They seem to be the ones that make most sense in the short living, very interactive, shell command line:
- Arrows for going up/down one or two commands,
- ctrl-r for interactive searching in the history,
- ctrl-a for going back to the beginning of the row,
- ctrl-e to the end,
- del & and backscape for deleting a bunch of chars,
- in some case ctrl-w for deleting words backwards (mostly for deleting the url in the latest wget command),
- and, of course, tab completion.
When I'm in need for more complex interactions:
- I start vim and
- work with a mix of !! commands (shell that outputs the result in the current vim buffer),
- vim manipulations (vertical selections, ctrl-x-f, qq short living macros), A and I with a . repeat),
- join everything in a row and yank it and, finally,
- a :!ctrl-r" to run it.
When the interaction is even more complex, than it's time for a shell script.
Last resort being a Python script.
Now, why would I take the time to write `rm my-file{-01,-02,old}` and risk getting a typo into it, instead of relying on the tab-autocomplete?
It's a small European town, with a University and a few other higher schools.
The houses in some parts of town were split in smaller and smaller units to maximise the rent profit (split one 2 1/2 flat worth 1'400 p/m and rent two single room flats for 900 each...).
The results is that Anna from the article would have found a shady cheaper flat and would be very happy with it (well, it's a bit expensive but it's mine!). But the spreading of micro apartments will also make her very unhappy for the rest of her life (the life before the first five years in her working career and the long years after that!).
She will come back and ask why there are no flats of reasonable size, for a reasonable price! She will state that not everybody is a twenty-something, who is almost never at home and only needs a bed to rest after yesterday evening party!
My stance: micro apartments are a need, but you probably don't want too many of them in town center. You need a good mix there and the twenty-something are not the ones who pay taxes nor the ones that build a solid social life.
Who cares if somebody says laibr, laiber, leeber, ... Get over it and write a song like the one with the tomatoes...
Or are you one of the braves that are pushing Nike to change their name, because nobody can figure out that it should pronounced [nǐːkɛː]?
Drivers as you (I suppose you are describing the way you're driving), are in my eyes the most dangerous on the street.
They probably won't be causing the most accidents directly, but they put other people under stress and push them not to respect their own limits.
We have more and more elderly people who need to be active in the society and also more and more people who only drive a car a few times a year.
And when you will get older (and it will happen! believe me!), you will still want to drive a car and you will have the same attitude my mother has: driving too fast, because she does not want to feel like an obstacle. But you will not be driving as well as in the good old times.
Anyway, statistics don't lie: 93% of the US drivers seem to consider themselves better than average... (says Wikipedia)
- You don't have a right to drive at 70 km/h! It's the upper bound!
- Cyclists are seen as obstacles and not as road users.
I don't own a car but sometimes have a ride with other people and it's scary to notice how aggressive some people are towards the other road users. And I'm even more frightened by those people who drive too fast (for their skills) just because they don't want to get in the way of the aggressive ones.
But luckily, there are also very cool drivers!
It's probably not meant to be clicked. That's why it is invisible.
Personally, I still use alt-space when somebody has managed to move a window out of the screen: you can still activate it, but you cannot see it.
At least practical for me, who never uses Windows, but gets called when people are stuck.
hidpi is not handled well in some (or many) applications, but the window manager (or linux as a kernel) has no problem with it. (and i still have very good eyes)
the usb-c dell adapter works perfectly (hdmi, vga, ethernet), i get up to 8 hours of battery, it's light, solid, quite and fast...
just a bit hot when charging.
the only big issue that i have still to solve is, getting a second monitor to work (mirroring somehow works)... but this is what you get when you don't use a destkop environment and have just a minimal install... (the ubuntu that comes pre-installed has no problems with the external monitor)
But it's miles away from being ugly...
We need designers that are willing to engage in the project and work hand in hand with the programmers.
In close feedback loops.
What you are suggesting will very likely lead to what
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218307
decided is bad design.
(Well, I don't really agree with him, but his opinion seems to be popular here).
What we need are lot of small incremental improvements based on a solid (evolving) concept, not a full rewrite each time a new UI mode shows up.
The saddest part is that when they dare to contribute, they simply create a fast and dirty bitmap / screenshot... With a few arrows and comment here and there.
In the worst case they just provide a screenshot of a similar commercial software: "Do like them."
I've heard it so often. Also in this thread.
Most designers who want contribute are ready to spend half an hour to a couple of hours on the issue. Not more. Then expect the programmers to spend their evenings and weekends programming. Create the proper files. Solve the edge cases.
And they're surprised that the end result does not correspond to what they were proposing.
Very few are ready to spend days or weeks on a dialog (of course not in one shot). Study the use cases, go through the possible interactions, develop proper specifications.
I also noticed that many are loudly asking for nicer UIs, but very few can think about usability and user interaction.
But I've also met some really amazing designers!
Like the one who has learned enough C++ to create a running mockup and could convince the programmers that what he is proposing can be done! He has been working on it during the past year!
So, dear designers, if you want to contribute to free software, you will probably be facing small teams of very busy programmers!
And, yes, creating free software is hard and dedicated work. For everyone who is involved!
If you want to be taken seriously, you'd better deliver files that are directly usable for the programmers (as an example: high quality individual files in the right format and size(s), not a big PNG/PSD).
You'd also better deliver a document explaining the concepts behind your work, so that the next designer can build upon your work.
And the programmers will know how to use your files.
And don't forget to also provide the sources for generating those files! (If possible, sources that can be further edited with free software!)
You don't have to learn programming, but there is some serious work ahead!
And there are a few designers who managed to achieve amazing results with their contributions! It's worth it!
Some dialogs are less stylish (Edit style), but most are just OK. They are not specially fancy but do not look ugly either.
To me, it looks like a solid, functional, tool, without most unnecessary decoration. It won't win the prize for the prettiest UI around, but it's far for being ugly.
So, I guess that the developers are working hard to add features and compatibility filters (Microsoft, Microsoft...), and settled to a timeless design that does not need to be redone from scratch every half a year because it looks so last month...
Maybe, you should try to work with it, instead of just testing it out.
I know several professional designers who only (or mostly) use free software.
Gimp inclusive.
They do this as a matter of choice.
And there are many more professional designers, who use free software for parts of their workflow. They do it, for many different reasons, but mostly because it just happens to fit their needs.
Some of them use Gimp.
If you would have read the article linked above, you would know that it's mostly about a professional designer (Aryeom) who is using Gimp for her work on an animation film.
Personally, I still believe that you're question would have deserved only a "42" type of answer.
"Professional designers" is such a vast term...
But, hey I'm so generous today :-)
P.S.: I don't want to get into a discussion on who is a professional designer and who is not, so I avoid putting links to the ones I know are using only/mostly free software...
But here are the names of the first ones that comes to mind: Cédric, Elisa, Vlada, Camille, David, ...
But as for 42, this is unlikely the answer you wanted to hear.
"Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins."
Their goal seems to be a good tool, not an alternative to any other software.
And it works well for me! Thanks Gimp.
(and we had to Google for BDSM. It does not seem to be a BSD Unix variant... and now that I think about it: it might be the reason why FreeBSD is not so popular!)
Not only I'm pretty sure that there is an Indic / Chinese language spoken by hundreds of milions people, where Inkscape is a bad word...
Also -- even if in my eyes it's a bit childish from the Gimp team to stick to what seems to be perceived as a bad name -- i perceive as even more childish that people keep on complaining that an acronym means something "bad" in their language.
Next time you come to the south of Switzerland, I'll invite you for a joyful train ride from Locarno to Domodossola: http://www.centovalli.ch/?lang=EN
No wonder that I am more than happy with a good bicycle and a yearly ticket for all public transportation in my country. Of course, I don't own a car.
I drink tap water, no "white cheddar mac & cheese" but as many fresh vegetables / meet / cheese as possible (ok, and lot of pasta). If I want to go to Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Vienna, Rome, London or Berlin there is a (more or less direct) train every two hours. Just buy a ticket over the internet, print it, and jump on the train (And while I wonder where Delaware is and why I would want to go there, I can take my laptop with me and keep on working during the whole ride to Paris).
I need a monitor arm? Just choose one in the internet shop and it's delivered tomorrow morning at my doorstep. Or I can pick it up later in the afternoon at the delivery place 10 minutes from here.
If I want to go and play table tennis with my friends, there are public parks where we can meet... Basketball? Checked. Football (you would probably call it soccer)? Even easier. Want to have a swim together? In the lake or in the river in summer or in a public pool if it's cold.
No 4K screen, no mini-fridges, no king size bed, no cold walls... but i agree a real guest bedroom would be nice!
Owning a car is for me just unpractical. And for the few times a year I would need one, I can find alternative solutions or book one through car sharing.
It gets to the point where I wonder if owning a car or not shapes your life in such different way or different choices in life makes you own a car (or not)...
it might be just the screenshots, i've not tried any of both, but comparing the two README files, i cannot say that they are real alternatives.
even if -- very likely -- both are very good toolkits!
To me, the German expression feels the weakest of the three mentioned languages...
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1409/23497.html
There might be more characters in the announcement than in the repository,though.
At least, this is what I've been told by a very picky guy...