commit: 1cd38e1e8eedf587c6d8644a160ac6cca5a473ce
parent 14b5f4b91e3dfe120c5c736e00a418a5b8c025b0
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 03:57:16 +0200
decreases of usability: where "consistent behaviour" points at
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<p>Want some system where the scrollbars are glorious? Plan9. Like the rest of the system the UI is simple as fuck but presents everything well. You get to choose how much to scroll on each click based on the position in the scrollbar or directly at a precise position with another click, meanwhile I had to hard-modify my current mouse so I would have less to no friction on the wheel.</p>
<h2 id="NonNativeBehaviour"><a href="#NonNativeBehaviour">§</a> Behaviours from other platforms into yours</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/"><cite>jwz: Why I use Safari instead of Firefox</cite></a>: <q>I don't <i>want</i> your Linux in my Mac. I want my Mac to behave like a Mac. That's why I bought a Mac.</q>. Well Firefox… I don't want your Windows into my Linux (or Unix), if you don't want to maintain behaviour consistent to the platform, maybe keeping on simply using GTK or making a small wrapper, or another toolkit would have been better, but no, you did you own <abbr title="Not Invented Here">NIH</abbr> with XUL, which you're doomed to be the only one using.</p>
+ <p>And this isn't about the Operating System or linux patchwork distro taking things from other systems, because this can sometimes be good (but not always, like do not be a clone, this never works in the end). What should never happen is programs that are part of the operating system context to behave differently like a special snowflake. (to me games are the only exception as they are very standalone in terms of interface and OS interaction)</p>
<h2 id="GtkColorChooser"><a href="#GtkColorChooser">§</a> Gtk3 ColorChooser</h2>
<p>GTK 3 came with the deprecation of the GtkColorSelection, which looks like basically any other colorpicker, you have a colorwheel, a way to tweak your color, optionnally a palette, a picker to grab a color from elsewhere, say your design guidelines and you have an entry where you can put a name or a <abbr title="Red Green Blue">RBG</abbr> hexcode.</p>
<img src="/images/GtkColorSelection.png" /> <img src="/images/GtkColorSelection_palette.png" />
