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Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by rbanffy »

bogwog wrote: post #156
rbanffy wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows Terminal has a neat shader thing that you can use to add things like noise and scanlines to your terminals. I wish all desktop windows could have shaders applied. I'm trying to convince myself to write one for a curved CRT look and one for phosphor persistence. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/samples/Pixe... The Windows Terminal team has a lot more fun than the others, it seems.

> The Windows Terminal team has a lot more fun than the others, it seems. Instead of having fun, they should be performing doctoral research to improve performance. ( https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomm... )

If the person thinks it's that simple, they could offer a patch. I don't think it's simple and I won't.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by tcit »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #140
de6u99er wrote: post #27

Wow, that's really cool. I think I am going to use the Matrix shader on my private workstation. Will do a code check before I install it on my work laptop tho. TIL: Gnome Extensions can be written in JavaScript.

The Gnome desktop shell is written in javascript. (or at least it was in 3.0, although I don't expect it to have changed)

Only small parts of it.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #49
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because emoji are tacky. You want to use them in your commit message? Fine. But if I were ever contribute to a project that enforces such a rule I would start every commit with the middle finger emoji.

Isn't tackiness heavily context, culture, and timeframe dependent? Besides, computing is far too serious these days . I see no reason for my computing to be a little bit whimsical (especially if it's a hobby project), provided it's also self-consistent.

> Isn't tackiness heavily context, culture, and timeframe dependent?

All the more reason to not require them?

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by [deleted] »

DonHopkins wrote: post #164
marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows/commit/b5f9118... // This effect is a homage to the good old Compiz days. However, it is implemented // // quite differently. While Compiz used a particle system, this effect uses a noise // // shader. The noise is moved vertically over time and mapped to a configurable color // // gradient. It is faded to transparency towards the edges of the window. In addition, // // t…

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Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by anarazel »

marcodiego wrote: post #26

Compiz was probably the single most impactful event for desktop linux of the mid 2000's. Not that it itself made much of a difference, but the ripples affect many areas we take for granted today. A few reasons: - it put linux ahead of windows and mac in terms of appearance; - it brought many new users and most were a good mix technical and enthusiasts; - it showed the advantages of modular software; - many plugins we…

Random, low confidence and trollish, theory: Compiz et al had the opposite effect. The number of different compositor / effect projects increased the already substantial fragmentation of the linux desktop world, and put a large amount of developer energy into things that didn't end up having influence over the long haul.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by GekkePrutser »

Hmm nice work but I always hated the way Compiz had so many effects just for the sake of it :) The wobbly windows, the fire.. It was cool for 2 minutes and then annoying. At least to me. I'm surprised so many people thought the wobbly windows added a real feel to the desktop. I never really had that experience. But it's good that it's an option.

I preferred Apple's animations which like the 'genie' one have a functional purpose too: they show where a minimised window is going.

For me, the perfect animation is extremely quick so it doesn't make the desktop feel slower, but still just noticeable enough to make it feel sophisticated. And it should have a function, not just for show.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by aflag »

chungy wrote: post #135
andrew_ wrote: post #93

The emoji-commit-message spec absolutely drives me batty. Why. Just why.

Youth maybe? Worse though is the dependence on the plain ASCII codes, limiting their utility (if you even call them that) to GitHub's display. On a terminal (at least where I'm likely to use "git log"), it's just a bunch of dumb ASCII codes taking up line space. I don't really get it. Why not just use the real emoji? At least it'll display properly outside of GitHub.

I liked the idea, but I agree with you that they should just have used emojis.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by babypuncher »

Firehawke wrote: post #32
the_only_law wrote: post #19

I actually kind of want to use GNOME just for this now. Call me crazy but little novelties like this are part of what make computers fun.

That's really it-- it's a waste of resources, but it's such a tiny amount that all these effects are almost free. There's no point in not having a little fluff that makes the experience a bit more fun.

I don't consider it a waste. These features provide enjoyment, which has value. As far as software goes, they are no more wasteful than video games or media players.

Units of energy expended per unit of "enjoyment" is certainly a factor to consider, but in this case the extra energy consumed is very minimal.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

nebula8804 wrote: post #97
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #70

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Bunch of rose-tinted hogwash, this. > It pioneered useful things like selecting an area of the screen and saving it directly to a file Pioneered? This was a standard feature on Macs since January 1997. > It also showed how important compositing was on the desktop. No, that would be the Quartz and Quartz Extreme compositors released with Mac OSX 10.0-10.2 years prior. Compiz in the mid 2000s was a mixture of catching…

I'll have to agree with this. Compiz was great at drawing curious people in but I'd argue that Compiz helped many people write off Linux. It definitely made Windows XP look outdated but after you scratch the surface and adopt Linux, you discover a world of hurt whether it be bad drivers that break your desktop and throw you to a different run level, poor interoperability between the different components or just the g…

It's a real shame, but unfortunately it seems endemic to the FOSS development ecosystem: people will work on things they think are cool; and stable, consistent, functional software is hard work and not very cool. Consequently we get a lot of opinionated little fiefdoms ruling over collections of frankensteined software and then the evangelical wonder why it isn't The Year of the Linux Desktop yet.

Re: Burn My Windows

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Post by GekkePrutser »

reaperducer wrote: post #28
netizen-936824 wrote: post #24

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Multiple desktops on a rotating cube tho. Shit was straight fire

I don't see why Apple couldn't introduce this to its desktop switching routine. The cube animation already exists for switching users. It would be nice to have the option when switching desktops.

Apple hates options of any kind. Their core ideology is "opinionated software". Meaning the software does things one single way, the way they intended, and it does that really well.

It sucks though if you really want things another way. Then you have to mess around with third-party addons that break every time there's a major upgrade. It's the main reason I moved back to KDE (and the OS being closed off more).

I would never choose to use Gnome for this reason because it does the same thing. But at least on FOSS we have many options available, to each their own!

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