#firstworldproblems
GTFO of my menu bar
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Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. On Android, unless you keep a process in the foreground (with an ongoing notification), the system can kill it at any time. So that's perfectly reasonable on Android.
Right. And even then, if you open a resource intensive page in Chrome, it will often kill processes that have ongoing notifications.
Yes, I just tapped on my Skype notification, and Skype had died (restarted when I switched to it), but left the notification up.
This behavior makes me miss Skype calls from my mother.
Skype behavior is really the worst of all worlds.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm on the verge of setting up my MBP to double boot to Arch or Debian and slowly moving as much as possible to Linux. Unfortunately, neither Illustrator or Photoshop are available on Linux. Are their open-source equivalents anywhere near the quality of their Adobe counterparts yet? I've yet to try InkScape, but I know that the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. I would rather work via ImageMagick, RMagick o…
try krita, mypaint, darktable,rawtherapee.
Darktable is broken in fundamental ways and the devs are stereotypically F/OSS hostile to bug reports about simple UI fixes and usability tweaks that haven't been state of the art for a decade.
It's the standard F/OSS model of "open source replacement for commercial software" that has some list of features nobody but nerds cares about and is completely unusable for day to day work. It's sad.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#84When apps install in the menubar, my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps. The Adobe updater app for example doesn't need to be anything more than a cron job. I only tolerate the Adobe app because I use Illustrator and Photoshop, but I certainly don't need the other crap like Behance and Typekit. the the Google+ification of services everything. I…
> my biggest concern isn't their visual presence, but the resources they are taking up by being one of those apps
Next time, buy a computer with more ram and spend your limited time on Earth thinking about things that actually matter.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm on the verge of setting up my MBP to double boot to Arch or Debian and slowly moving as much as possible to Linux. Unfortunately, neither Illustrator or Photoshop are available on Linux. Are their open-source equivalents anywhere near the quality of their Adobe counterparts yet? I've yet to try InkScape, but I know that the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. I would rather work via ImageMagick, RMagick o…
Just run those apps in a Windows VM. VirtualBox seamless mode is quite nice.
I reckoned that was an option, but since migrating to OS X, I have never had to have a Windows VM installed and couldn't be happier. Having to put a Windows VM in order to migrate to Linux kind of turns my stomach a bit.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
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Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#87Another top offender is F.lux. You set it up one time and forget about it, and yet it doesn't have the option to remove it from the menu bar.
FWIW, I adjust my F.lux setting all the time! When the sun sets at 5pm but I'm still working in a brightly-lit office, I hit "disable for an hour." When I'm in a completely dark room, I switch it all the way to the dimmest "candle" setting.
The newest version has keyboard shortcuts (on Windows anyways)!
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the biggest requirements iOS was designed around was "don't trust lazy or shitty devs" and people still freak out about the huge amount of restrictions placed on apps. I'm not sure there is any winning.
I think a decent solution is to allow users to give apps permission to do things like that, but not have them by default and make the app work even if it wants those things. For example I had some browser extension that wanted to have access to my entire history, even though it didn't need it at all. If you said no it wouldn't work at all. As opposed to giving it some default value for history like "the only site I'v…
like you can do now on some aosp roms on android. Installing Facebook and taking away all those permissions is awesome!
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
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I wish the monochrome icon for Dropbox would do a better job showing me when the app is syncing or in sync. That's the only reason I still have the color icon.
One approach might be to photoshop hack the color icons to greyscale. They're usually in the resource bundle.
That's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Re: GTFO of my menu bar
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Argh yeah. Compiling ImageMagick is easier than using GIMP. Surprised someone hasn't made a LOGO-like language for raster editing. Is there any specific motivation to switch to linux? OSX might not be libre, but it mostly works (apart from setrlimit).
I simply want to do more and more of my computing at the command line and with OS X I often find that every task I want to accomplish is a little more complex than it has to be, and that over time that all adds up.
Yeah that's true. Should always try to mirror prod as close as practical in dev, and OSX != Linux. So I use just one Ubuntu lts VM with docker backed by zfs. That way, I can ssh to it and predictably recreate any number of isolated environments. Way faster than vagrant and still provides isolation, although docker could be driven by it. There's always a need for some sort of deploy/configuration mgmt to bootstrap to speed up testing and reduce tiny difference gotchas. The other good things are that it doesn't sacrifice osx usability, no reboot is needed and it doesn't require repartitioning.