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Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:18 pm

it just depends on what you care about modding, i suppose. i consider my phone a mini-computer, and thus want to customize it. i have treated it with exactly the same mindset as i do my desktop. changed icons, fonts (no actually default one is Roboto, is nice), wallpaper, changed homescreen launcher (and customized the fuck out of that too), made custom shortcuts so i can get to my most-used apps quickly without having a cluttered desktop full of ugly (non-unified) icons... the iPhone "homescreen" to me looks like somebody's icon-overloaded Windows desktop. i can't stand that shit. oh yeah, calendar widget on my phone desktop, so i can see where i need to be immediately... does iphone do widgets yet?

anyway, my logic is: since i use that thing continuously during the day, even more than i use my laptop, i want it to look nice and do exactly the shit i want it to do as easily as possible.

Unread post by **kexolino** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:03 pm

Interesting to see that the iPhone gets use among grillers.
I like Android, but not most non-stock launchers/skins, so I just use a vanilla Lollipop ROM. I have one homescreen with a clock+weather combo widget on it, and 2 launchers on each side of the menu button, that's it. Then again, I mostly just use it for messaging and browsing.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:20 pm

rho, the calendar is there when you swipe down, together with reminders, todo list, a weather forecast (different locations possible by swiping left/right), last notifications with integrated :go directly to: function. it is not on the home screen, no. you can access this control center from inside any application, which makes it quite efficient once you got used to the home screen and thus the home button being not really the center of the world, but more something like a back/exit button. double-click the home button to have the long-press-android functionality for task switching.
you can imagine how much I hate hate hate Apple, I really do, and especially their user base and how they brainwash the hipsters. but from the point of efficiency, iOS is damned well designed.

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Fri Dec 11, 2015 6:41 pm

I totally understand what you mean here Rhow.

rhowaldt wrote:...changed homescreen launcher (and customized the fuck out of that too)...

Though I tried that and it felt like running KDE on top of Xfce. :D

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 1:58 am

Cool lastfm stats:

http://nicholast.fm/

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:27 pm

If you want to compare what our Unix heroes use now as a desktop, take a look:

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/scree ... -vs.-2015/

RMS said:

Under X, I use the standard environment of Trisquel, but mostly I type at Emacs in a console.

without any scrot like the last time. :)

And look at this beauty, using Xmonad:

https://anders.unix.se/images/desktop_ttimo_2015.png

You can find his configs on Github.

Unread post by **ChefIronBelly** » Mon Dec 14, 2015 9:52 pm

^ very cool I dig that stuff.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:28 am

Surprises:

1) Sir Brian Kernighan uses a Mac.
2) RMS likes his GNU bloat surrounded by more bloat.
3) saltstack mention.

Thanks DD for the share!

Unread post by **franksinistra** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 7:19 am

Should've asked dkeg to post his screenshot at the end of the article, just to keep things interesting. :)

P.S. : For some reason RMS's scrots are blocked in my country. lol

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 8:17 am

franksinistra wrote:P.S. : For some reason RMS's scrots are blocked in my country. lol

He's too lazy to take a scrot :)

Unread post by **dkeg** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:35 pm

haha frank.

right MB, I also noticed that. Also noticed the prevelance of the basic xterm colors.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 2:41 pm

^ barely any of my colleagues use anything more fancy than ubuntu's/#!'s default (tango?) Whilst I like the colours to be the colours, anything is better than for example; 00FF00 for 'eyerape' green

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Tue Dec 15, 2015 4:58 pm

dkeg wrote:
right MB, I also noticed that. Also noticed the prevelance of the basic xterm colors.

That is because the so-called developers never care about the looks.
As a user I cannot stand an ugly desktop.

wuxmedia wrote:^ barely any of my colleagues use anything more fancy than ubuntu's/#!'s default (tango?) Whilst I like the colours to be the colours, anything is better than for example; 00FF00 for 'eyerape' green

Yeah, the default icon theme in a bare bones Xfce setup freshly installed from any distributions repository.
On work I would accept some ugliness.

Unread post by **rhowaldt** » Wed Dec 16, 2015 10:18 am

^ that then explains why so many developers have trouble coming up with anything that looks good, of which the Emacs logo is a prime example.

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:22 am

judge your online friends responses!

Unread post by **simgin** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:47 pm

^ hahahaha :D

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 8:50 am

Some interesting things:

http://pnacl-amiga-emulator.appspot.com/

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:03 pm

busy day at the 'office' :)
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-v ... our-toilet
how did they test they can tread water for 3 days?

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 10:36 pm

wuxmedia wrote:Some interesting things:

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/

I was too scared by the epileptic warning. :D

Unread post by **wuxmedia** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 8:35 am

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... rones.html

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