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twotavol

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    Comment #11737196

    Why are you lecturing me on visual impairment and disabilities? At no point did I claim you ignore that user base. >Many of us may not particularly like touch screens, but an incre…

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    Comment #11736941

    A simple write up with screenshots or something would be nice.

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    Comment #11736930

    >GTK 3 and QML (Qt5) would like to target the same space as web applications. It doesn't make sense. Applications which are written with a web UI in mind will translate very poorly…

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    Comment #11736904

    > The "big buttons" are that size because people have all sorts of accessibility needs different from your own What accessibility needs are you targeting when you make the buttons …

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    Comment #11733227

    "For those apps that don't have the necessary binaries the native code will be translated on the fly to the host architecture instruction set" How would this happen?

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    Comment #11729508

    Account breaches are so god damn annoying. That coupled with the stupid rules for coming up with passwords (only 6-8 characters, a-z,A-Z,0-9 allowed!) makes it really frustrating t…

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    Comment #11720556

    Even though it won't happen I sincerely hope this latest round of unintended upgrades causes some severe and costly issues for end users. Microsoft deserves nothing but hate and ba…

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    Comment #11705615

    ffmpeg I want to be able to do some basic stuff quickly without having to search for what I need to copy and paste into the CLI or read a bunch of docs. The gui should make things …

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    Comment #11703760

    Eschewing the traditional application architecture has made for both a terrible development experience and poor quality applications in general. The application lifecycle is convol…

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    Comment #11687430

    I can pull open inkscape and make an okay logo for an application in a few hours and have it meet all the criteria listed in that article. Its an icon. You aren't moving heaven and…

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    Comment #11685948

    Qt is basically unrivaled in this space in my opinion. If you really control your hardware and software, it seems like its easier for you to just comply with the LGPL requirements.…

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    Comment #11680880

    Google doesn't need to do anything. No matter how bad Android gets, you and the general public will lap it up. Where else are you going to go? More on topic I use the File Manager …

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    Comment #11680788

    Design is getting so pretentious and haughty. The icon design evolution video, the article littered with artistic buzzwords, all this song and dance for a circle in a squircle over…

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    Comment #11678630

    I would have called the coffee shop Deus Ex Mocha

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    Comment #11678460

    >The apps are huge. It's like 50 MB for hello world. This doesn't sound right. Can someone else verify? I'm pretty sure I've written Android applications in QML that are far smalle…

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    Comment #11678308

    Every Electron application I've used has been sluggish and straight up pathetically slow compared to any native counterparts. I think there are two reasons its picking up steam: * …

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    Comment #11670391

    Anyone know which patent they are talking about?