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It seems like your perfect WM is a tiling one. :)
Like Xmonad.
As an XMonad user, I can attest to the fact that it is indeed nirvana.
John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
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#32Seems like arstechnica is a little bit overloaded by the number of requests (or am I the only one getting errors sometimes?)
You're not alone :)
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#33Seems like arstechnica is a little bit overloaded by the number of requests (or am I the only one getting errors sometimes?)
I just got:
"Our servers melted!"
"Our servers are misbehaving"
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Yeah... And then you delete how?
Umm, the point of GMail is to never delete anything anymore. I love being able to search through my years of old mail.
That was the point of gmail... five years ago. And then they added delete, because there are some message which never again need to see the light of day.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#35Is there a version of Firefox that plays nicely with the new full screen app features? 5.0.1 kind of falls apart with it, but I just can't give up TreeStyle Tabs to make the leap to Chrome, which is a good citizen.
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#36On resuming application state:
>So, how's that "geek panic" now? Still there, huh? Well, let me try to reassure you. As a committed user of a great Mac text editor that, years ago, implemented its own version of almost all the document management features described so far, I can tell you that you get used to it very quickly. Spoiled by it, in fact. Ruined by it, some would say. Yes, it's a very different model from the one we're all used to. But it's also a better model—not just for novices, but for geeks too.
This works fine with text editors (although I'd argue that if invoked via the equivalent of "mvim" or "mate" they should discard this), but it absolutely falls apart with media creation applications. Photoshop and Illustrator files can be big, and they can take a long time to open. Just so that you can close it immediately and open a different one. Logic Pro currently does this, and it isn't nice or better. It's annoying.
Then there's the privacy concerns. If a designer is working with multiple clients, the last thing he or she wants is a different client's work showing up when he or she is showing something to a client.
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#37One thing that continuously strikes me is Apple's ability to invest great level of detail when they want to.
Take the FileVault recovery key, for example.
For something so crucial like file encryption, not only do they offer you a quick solution but a practical and more "human usable" one; they offer to store it for you.
And then they go the extra mile with those security questions! http://static.arstechnica.net/2011/07/04/lion/file-vault-app...
Remember how typical security questions are "What was your mother's maiden name" or name of your pet? Typically those questions are considerably very unsafe since they are very easy to find out in an innocent conversation.
Compare that to questions like childhood phone number, first teacher in school etc. - they are considerably "safer".
Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
#38Love the (lack of) scrollbars. My perfect OS would have no visible window chrome at all, no edges, no title bar, no buttons, nothing other than my work. The other bits would fade in as needed, then disappear again. not sure how exactly though...
But I like the Ubuntu scrollbars better. There is at least a small line showing there is more content.
The reviewer is also surprised to see he is "missing" some programs (scrollbar is missing). I think this is a bad UI decision.
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#39I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?
It has always been possible to archive a message by moving it to the "All Mail" mailbox, right?
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#40One thing that continuously strikes me is Apple's ability to invest great level of detail when they want to. Take the FileVault recovery key, for example. For something so crucial like file encryption, not only do they offer you a quick solution but a practical and more "human usable" one; they offer to store it for you. And then they go the extra mile with those security questions! http://static.arstechnica.net/2011…
Being picky about the childhood phone number: does anyone even remember that? Since I have the iPhone I can only memorise something like three or four phone numbers.