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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by JohnMakin » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:13 PM UTC

sen wrote: post #90

I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…

There's another benefit to opening this kind of functionality to apps - it's very friendly towards developing interfaces that are more friendly to the disabled. I have certain disabilities where specific types of UI designs are basically unusable to me, and without the ability to customize them, I kinda just cannot use them (unless they provide an API as an alternative).

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by pavon » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:16 PM UTC

cstuder wrote: post #20

_def wrote: post #2

Love it. I really wonder though how people ended up doing this?

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

Oh, this is the bane of shared network drives.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by WD-42 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:38 PM UTC

sen wrote: post #90

I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…

I completely agree. I, in no small part, owe my career as a software dev to falling in love with Linux because of the ability to theme everything, apps, desktops, ui toolkits.

Of course, this was back in the kde3 and gnome(2?) days. It’s different now, it seems like theming has become actively discouraged, especially in Gnome.

It makes me sad wondering how many young creative people the community is missing an opportunity to captivate.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by NamTaf » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:43 PM UTC

_7acn wrote: post #63

I’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams

One of the first things I did on my Steam Deck was to get Winamp running via Bottles :) it lives on the inbuilt screen when I’ve got it docked in desktop mode on my 2 desktop monitors.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by NamTaf » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:48 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #84

RajT88 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is an irony that Windows makes keyboard shortcut users out of even non-techies.

FWIW, you can configure the minimum distance for a mouse move to count as a drag. The default was adequate for 640x480, but maybe should have been increased.

For others: I was curious how to do this, so if you put “change windows drag drop sensitivity” into your search engine of choice you’ll find a tutorial for which registry settings to change.

The default is 4 pixels, which I’m inclined to agree is low these days.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by account42 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:56 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #83

cpach wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I look at the sky and the bricks I get the impression that the photo has “grain”. I wonder if it was actually shot on film.

Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.

Digital camera sensors are still quite noisy, perhaps even more so as sensors have gotten smaller while resolutions have gotten higher (meaning even smaller pixels). We just process all the noise away most of the time.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by layer8 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

NamTaf wrote: post #95

layer8 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, you can configure the minimum distance for a mouse move to count as a drag. The default was adequate for 640x480, but maybe should have been increased.

For others: I was curious how to do this, so if you put “change windows drag drop sensitivity” into your search engine of choice you’ll find a tutorial for which registry settings to change. The default is 4 pixels, which I’m inclined to agree is low these days.

To be more precise, it’s the registry settings HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\DragWidth and DragHeight. You can also use a tool like Winaero Tweaker to adjust the values.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by account42 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

voidUpdate wrote: post #45

mikae1 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> TinEye searched over 69.1 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Google's reverse image search (images.google.com, click the little camera) can perform better in many cases, though here it only finds the linked page

Yandex reverse image search can also be useful often, although in this case it just gives you other images of people with basketballs. Curse whoever decided to introduce AI to reverse image search.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by account42 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

Nition wrote: post #47

imp0cat wrote: post #35

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Yes, single click, then Enter, that's the winning combo here.

If you're willing to try something a little bit different, Windows also has a single-click to open mode ('View->Options->Change folder and search options' in Win 11). To only select, you point and hover for a moment.

I wish it would let do single click open without hover to select. It's just too easy to mess up your selection if you are not careful where you park your cursor for even a split second.

KDE's Dolphin is much better here, can be set to single click open with drag selection box or click + icon to select.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

#100

Post by account42 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 4:04 PM UTC

metadat wrote: post #31

cstuder wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A notorious issue when doing Windows support (An experience I recommend to every developer!): Double clicking a folder or file in Explorer in order to open it, but slipping the mouse and therefore accidently moving the target into another folder.

This happens to me almost daily. Almost never happens with Mac or Linux. How's that? :)

Do you have your Linux file browser set to click to open or double click to open?