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Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by dspillett »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #46
n8henry wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google removed that functionality because of a settlement with Getty.

That is awful and fundamentally flawed. If it's on my device, I can save it. Edit: Come to think of it, if it's on my device, it's already saved in some way, shape and form. Clearly nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue Google. What Google should of done is offered to advertise that an image is available to purchase...

> awful and fundamentally flawed

Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense. And even when it seems to from your perspective, the way others interpret it does not.

> nobody technical at that company made that decision to sue

Technical people can be arseholes too you know. Many patent trolls are technical people, not just legal eagles, for instance.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by igravious »

buckminster wrote: post #24

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

What do you mean that you can't zoom?

Do you mean you can't zoom the image or do you mean you can't zoom the site?

And on what combination of device, os, and browser can you not zoom the image/site?

On Firefox on Linux on my laptop I can ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the site, or right-click on the image and select `view image` from the context-sensitive menu which opens the image in another tab and from there the cursor becomes a magnifying glass.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by carokann »

Neat. For people looking at alternatives for configurable dashboards i suggest sampler[0]. It has a weird license but free for personal use. You can report any output of a terminal command with a custom time rate. E.g. you can SSH and pipe HTOP of a remote system, query your local DB and do a timeseries etc. all in one place.

[0]: https://github.com/sqshq/sampler

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by dspillett »

buckminster wrote: post #24

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

I think it is a misguided attempt at making the content dynamically adjust to the device proportions, so the screenshot is large but not overlarge (over screen size) on mobile and desktop devices of different orientations. A laudable goal, if badly implemented (I can't scale at all on mobile, it distorts oddly when I zoom on desktop).

Either that or deliberate user filtering: if you can't figure out right-click (or long press) then "open in new tab" on your own, then maybe you are not the class of user the creator wants to support :-).

I doubt the inconvenience is deliberate, more a side effect of some other design consideration. There are smaller images on each of the widget description pages (though they also scale oddly in places) which in total provide more detail than that one image. Perhaps drop the author a polite message suggesting that they include a "view full image" link near the screenshot on the opening page or with the image itself as the mouse target?

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by nine_k »

buckminster wrote: post #24

There's a detailed screenshot but I can't zoom to see the detail because the website designer has gone the extra mile to make it non-zoomable. Why do people do this?

Zooms just fine in mobile Firefox.

It's a good thing when the makers of a browser actually care about the user.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by debaserab2 »

iaml wrote: post #49
andai wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no clue why people downvote you, as this is exactly the reason this page is not zoomable. In my humble opinion people doing stuff like this should be forcefully separated from the process of creating web sites.

There’s reasons for doing it, though. For example, iOS Safari likes to zoom past 1.0 slightly when focusing an input and doesn’t zoom back out to 1.0 when unfocused. This often leaves users in a slightly zoomed in state which means they can easily miss right side aligned buttons and content. Setting the maximum scale to 1 in the viewport prevents this.

Re: WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

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Post by calvinmorrison »

rpmisms wrote: post #59

Why does everyone feature a world clock in their information dashboards? Yes, it's a handy feature to have, and yes, it's easy to build, but very few people actually use them.

very useful for multi-time-zoned projects. Working with overseas times means you get good at mental translation but with daylight savings, people moving around, new people on the project, etc - it becomes very handy.

One of my favorite clock related features is in KMail where it says "Senders current time", which is often helpful as well.

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