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Re: I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

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Post by claudius » Sun, May 05, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

GhotiFish wrote: post #338

emp_zealoth wrote: post #330

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For the laptop with closed lid, I have no idea what is the problem. It works out of the box for me. I'm not exactly sure what does dontzap do, but apparently its X.org issue, not Gnome. I agree they made some controversial changes. I don't really like the bottom tray. I don't like the lack of any meaningful customisation. Some really stupid shit was that they hid Power Off option for some time. Then again, it is so g…

a neophite? I shall explain! GNOME has being going out of their way with the philosophy "less is more" Re. configuration. So yes, the laptop lid does work out of the box, what doesn't work is when you're listening to music on your laptop and you close the lid. There is nothing you can do through gnome to stop this. You must install configuration programs. Zap is a ridiculously useful key combo for X which signals X t…

> Don't get me started on Nautilus. You're using Gnome? Try uninstalling nautilus and using Nemo. It's a fork of the old Nautilus by the guys at Linux Mint.

I have Nautilus 2.32 pinned over here with an otherwise Xfce-y DE. The latter still doesn’t seem to have figured out how to deal with icons on the desktop in a decent way.

Re: I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

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Post by tass » Mon, May 06, 2013, 12:42 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #51

Gmail is now a cluster fuck of terribleness. Who the hell decided it was a good idea to make you type your email in what is basically a slightly larger chat window? Who decided it would be a good idea to put the "reply" edit box at the end of a potentially very long email? Oh, and make it fit like six lines of text. I swear, this is what happens when you let a bunch of kids run the show. "My emails are rarely ever mo…

> Who the hell decided it was a good idea to make you type your email in what is basically a slightly larger chat window?

If you need more space, the box expands; there is also a pop-out button so you can make it as big as you want.

> Who decided it would be a good idea to put the "reply" edit box at the end of a potentially very long email?

There is also a 'Reply' button right at the top of the email. You don't need to scroll at all.

It's not that bad, definitely not terrible.

Re: I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

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Post by josefresco » Mon, May 06, 2013, 3:13 PM UTC

taigeair wrote: post #38

josefresco wrote: post #31

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This is the place to ask if you need advice on how to optimize WordPress to survive traffic surges.

@josefresco Really haha? I thought it was just because I have a cheap hosting service. But yes, advice would be great :)

Sorry for the late reply, the lowest hanging fruit with WordPress assuming your theme isn't bloated is to implement a caching plugin.

This will serve static HTML instead of hitting your DB every page request. There are others but since this post has now aged I'm assuming you have moved on. Contact me if you want specific help.

Re: I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

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Post by bborud » Mon, May 06, 2013, 5:54 PM UTC

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #318

bborud wrote: post #209

On a related note: did Google hire some broken UX person with an immense fetish for annoying popups and interruptions? It seems that almost every product has some sort of "oh, let me intrude into your day and tell you about some annoying UX misfeature that you have to stop everything you are doing and look at right now"-popup nowadays. Of course, since I have 3-4 Google accounts (work, personal, hobby projects etc) I…

4 feet by 6 feet, you say?

so c/o Matt Cutts then?

:-)