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Chromium only I guess. Bah.
Works fine for me in Firefox.
Works for me in LibreWolf, even.
Windows 11 in Svelte
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Re: Windows 11 in Svelte
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Synology's Disk Station Manager recreates a desktop environment. https://demo.synology.com/en-us/dsm
Synology's web desktop is really slick. Is there an open source web desktop environment that comes close? I've seen os.js etc but that looks a bit dated now. The React ones for Win11 are a bit immature still.
I'd like to think my project daedalOS comes close and is fully functional as far as desktop environments in the browser go. Feel free to check it out.
Re: Windows 11 in Svelte
#204Looks great, but not very realistic. The real Win11 start menu doesn't open immediately, it glitches in various ways for 3-4 times before actually working. Realism 7/10
I use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix start menu and taskbar. Can't imagine using Windows without it.
How does it compare to StartAllBack?
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#205At the bottom of the readme is a huge spammy star this project advertisement with animated images. I cant help but laugh at the irony of a project which replicates the experience of Windows 11 - an OS with integrated self promoting Ads - itself displays spammy self promoting ads. The same github user has this same spam on every repo - no wonder they are a Windows fan, right at home with spam.
I wouldn't have a problem with that, if only they were in better taste... that graphic looks like something out of XKCD, and the scrolling userlist almost gave me a seizure. Looks like it was done by a teenager or someone with more commercial rather than technical background, and this isn't a praising.
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So Microsoft does know how to fix the problems with Windows, but simply chooses not to because of internal politics? Because I keep wondering how such a big, well-established company full of smart people can create such a piece of crap as their flagship product.
The impression I got from reading through some of the Windows Terminal[0] issues/release notes, is that It's understandable that it's much slower and more challenging to make changes to functionality that's become part of Windows core. If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
> If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS.
Yet Microsoft seems to have no concerns about changing out functional, fast, easy to use components for worse replacements.
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The impression I got from reading through some of the Windows Terminal[0] issues/release notes, is that It's understandable that it's much slower and more challenging to make changes to functionality that's become part of Windows core. If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
> If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. Yet Microsoft seems to have no concerns about changing out functional, fast, easy to use components for worse replacements.
I wasn't speaking to the quality of their decision making. A lot of their new UI fails to satisfy anything but the simplest of use cases but I'm sure it took a very long time and lots of meetings for it to get approved and deployed.
The Frankenstein period of old/new settings UI coexisting is further evidence of how painful ripping out OS functionality can be. I doubt anyone wanted to keep those dialogs around.
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WHY DOES IT DO THAT!!!?
It doesn't? I'm multilingual and always had 3 keyboard languages in parallel and never had any of those issues happen in 15+ years and 6 versions of Windows. Most likely he was hitting alt+space by accident which cycles through them without him realizing. Hot take: I feel like a lot of Windows issues people raise are actually user errors/accidents, then blaming the OS for it.
Could be ctrl+shift. It's easy to mistype, and there's no UI feedback. Also used to only change a single window's language (not sure if that's the case anymore, as I use win+space).
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
The impression I got from reading through some of the Windows Terminal[0] issues/release notes, is that It's understandable that it's much slower and more challenging to make changes to functionality that's become part of Windows core. If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
> If something in PowerToys turns out to be a bad idea, it can be removed. It's much harder to justify that when it's been baked into the OS. Yet Microsoft seems to have no concerns about changing out functional, fast, easy to use components for worse replacements.
If you look at it from their incentives (serving you adds, getting you to use their products over competitor's, etc...) then it makes sense. Uniformity and Usability appears to be a secondary concern.
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Systemic user error is a software defect.
How the user mashing random keys a SW defect? The SW does what you tell it to do.
If enough people are unaware that they're telling the software to do something and are confused by its behavior, then the software needs to better indicate what it's doing and why.