Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by jacoblambda on Saturday December 29, 2018 @08:36PM
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Something that actually blew my mind is that by default most Qt apps actually can accept a theme sheet by command line argument. This means that you can pretty much retheme any Qt app by adding a file and editing how shortcuts/registry/however else you can launch applications. I know that there is a programmatic way to do all that on linux but not sure of how for win and mac.
Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday December 30, 2018 @11:34AM
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That's still a huge step down from the single configuration dialog we used in Windows 95. And it's slower.
Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday December 30, 2018 @08:13PM
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On Linux, at least, there is such a central dialog. It’s just that Qt exposes the configuration via command line overrides
Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:51PM
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Well, I think what we call "design" has two parts: one is "theming" concerns and is made up of things like colors, icons and cursor shapes (to give an incomplete list); the other is more functional and has to do with the logical structure of the various inputs and outputs in a UI. Generally speaking, I think the former concern should be totally under the user's control while the latter concern is what UX people and front-end devs should be doing.
To some degree? It is incredibly anti-user, especially if the user happens to have a disability. I know I've said this before but it is absolutely ridiculous that having a "dark mode" is considered some kind of notable feature in 2018, when in 1995 you could just set all your colors and fonts however you preferred them.
But that's the world we live in now. Personal computing is dead, you just rent your computing from some corporation and they'll tell you when to update and how everything should look and what you can and cannot install (for your own good comrade!).
As far as personal computing is concerned we're living in the darkest timeline. Makes me ashamed to have anything to do with the tech industry.