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Re:Overrun With Messaging Apps on Friday December 06, 2013 @03:19PM (#6863510)
Maybe they should put a big SMS label on it so you know, or put "SMS 000-000-0000" at the top to signify it's an SMS chat rather than the Hangout. (This is how it is today, btw)
And I've found your kind of post deluded and utterly ridiculous for the last 3 years.
Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:15PM (#6851210)
Pretty clearly, too. Nepomuk+KRunner sounds like it would meet a large number of the criteria specified.
Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @04:00PM (#6850130)
>A single problem with KDE - windows key cannot be mapped to show the start menu without extension.

AFAIK, that's an X limitation. Already fixed in KDE5/KF5/PW2. Very annoying though, I've retrained myself for Super+Space as my hotkey instead.

>Second is that all the taskbars that I found for it were just worse than the windows one in multimonitor setup or ugly.

Hm, not sure what's up there. My KDE setup is identical to my work Windows setup. Taskbar on each monitor with "start" menu button and the icon-only task manager. Then the panel on my main monitor has my sys tray. Other than obvious icon differences, it's damn near identical to Windows (at least the way 8.1 does the taskbar on all monitors).

>Alt+Tab worked inconsistently

o_0 in KDE? KDE's default alt-tab is identical to Windows's. In Gnome-shell, it acts like OS X's Cmd-Tab. But either way, you can tweak the window switcher to work exactly the way you like- include all windows, only restored windows, switch between apps or windows, etc, etc.

Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @02:35PM (#6849500)
Nonsense. There are, at best, a handful of desktop environments targeted at daily desktop users: Unity, KDE, Gnome-Shell, maybe LXDE/Razor if you're being generous.

I've love to hear a single specific complaint about an experience you had with KDE that isn't "it was different from windows", especially given that it's the closest to the Windows daily interactions.

Re:A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @08:39PM (#6812532)
Is there any chance of you giving it a rest? We get it. You think Bitcoin and Bitcoiners are stupid. You passed Intro to Econ in college. You've drawn completely arbitrary lines in the sand and given nothing to justify them but emotional appeal. You, like many others, seem to waltz into every thread thinking that you've just independently come up with the fatal flaw of Bitcoin as it chugs along it's third year of existence.

You display a nearly D-K effect when you act as if these are foregone conclusions with your "Just....... jesus, man." Especially after the catastrophe that was the last paragraph about price&divisibility. It's completely nonsense from an economic perspective. And there are clear benefits in using a highly divisible currency (and especially since it can be represented as a whole number... rather than a float. Ironic, whoops).