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sorry

errr ... say what?

not a zinger this time (no zig for you!).

anyhoo, ciao.

zing! (or zig)

be careful and do your research.

anytime you need to implement anything that shares references (just about any data structure worth its weight in implementation time) you need to use Rc<> and friends.

i am not talking about https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-01-unsafe-rust.html. fine, this escape hatch is needed.

i am referring to https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html.

kling for king! ... the good people of the world love and cheer for you. onwards, while there is life. :)

realistic? compete? new? iphone?!????

you are lost.

well done. don't be so hard on yourself. ahk is amazing stuff.

FYI - this gets close, but not quite.

you can do this with devinput alone, so for sure. see ydotool, xcape, or it's not hard to write your own.

you can implement the wm manager of your dreams in ahk ... in like 500 lines. it's amazing stuff.

you can also go all out: https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

it's a variant of "for the children ..."

yeah. this is as far as you get: https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool.

begs the question. how come ahk can run on windows(tm) but not wayland? my understanding is that win10/11 are pretty secure.

:D

100% my impression as well.

and you're right. macos is fine from a usability point of view. everything in gnome UI feels like they started strong, stayed strong, and then gave up half way ... (so many examples there's no point listing them anymore) and yeah put the clock in the middle of the bar while we're at it too.

and yet, you feel the potential no? no bugs whatsoever for me.

:/

back to xfce4. clunky, but consistent. some bugs. it's ok.

the impetuses are shrouded in mystery, what with the metaphorical GTK+, and the whatever it is the gnomers are doing over there. a graphical DE it is not, but it has "graphics".

sigh

it could be so awesome if a non-schizo designer got involved. it's frustrating really. so much potential, such thick window bars.

it is so stupid.

i find most (if not all) technical decisions of the gnome team sensible.

but that fucking design and UI paradigm? WTF! the whole thing is so jekyll and hyde it beggars belief.

this is seriously a mystery to me. how do people use gnome? how can you be productive with it? i tried so hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782882

i installed a new debian box for work and i forgot to choose xfce4 so went with the default. gnome 3. i tried. i tried so hard to get used to it. for 2 horrible months i tried.

i only need a terminal, emacs, browser, thunderbird, the occasional screenshot and it was still horrific.

to be clear it was only the usability that was a nightmare. i experienced no bugs. it's solid. but wow it is unusable.

please, please, please someone at gnome headquarters ... can you make it usable? look at win10, win11, macos, kde, chromeos they all work fine. can't you do something like that? i believe you have the best software stack out there, and you're throwing it away with that frightful design.

this is tragic.

:)

one could imagine many things ...

:)

awesome.

nah. but happy that it helps you.

rust == https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

i haven't met one dev whose interested in rust for solving a problem. they just want to rust for its sake. which is ok. whatever. but that tells you something.

you're not missing anything.

same story, different spin.

but if it helps you ....

door to door to AI ... hmmm ....

yeah.

so if you want to paint/draw, you will read books about drawing?