A recent study shows caps locks makes your argument 200 times more effective. Onto your complaint, amazingly this can be shot down quite easily. Here: it detected my monitor right the very first time. Damn, that just negated your entire point! If you want to hate on a distro, pick a much more defensible position. Say that you don't like how Ubuntu has forked from Debian and is moving towards a different terrible direction, or whatever. Hardware detection can be spotty for nearly any distro or OS.Though I'm not too sure of your current situation, I'm fairly confident in that no is pointing a gun to your head forcing you to read every post about Ubuntu. If stories aren't dugg then those type of stories will no longer appear. Simple as that. Don't like it: don't digg it.
Personally I don't like the "drag-and-drop a text selection" feature. When I click and hold inside a text selection, it's because I made it too big and want to re-select, not drag some stupid lump of text around.On the other hand, dragging frequently used programs from the main menu to the top panel is effortless and convenient. And rearranging them with middle-click-drag works well.
It doesn't even take GNOME. Or GTK+. KDE has these same features as well, except for the awful text-selection-drag one. So do Macs. So does Windows for the most part. Least notable story EVER.
(Man, the difference in meaning between the words 'now' and 'not' are so big compared to the differences in spellings.) I digress, this is great. I'm trying to get into Ubuntu, and running into some hitches. These are useful tips.
Exactly, I'm entering the linux desktop world after years of mac use and just expected this functionality. However, it is one of those things (among many) I just never use. Like the desktop.
morningblurJul 10, 2006
A recent study shows caps locks makes your argument 200 times more effective. Onto your complaint, amazingly this can be shot down quite easily. Here: it detected my monitor right the very first time. Damn, that just negated your entire point! If you want to hate on a distro, pick a much more defensible position. Say that you don't like how Ubuntu has forked from Debian and is moving towards a different terrible direction, or whatever. Hardware detection can be spotty for nearly any distro or OS.Though I'm not too sure of your current situation, I'm fairly confident in that no is pointing a gun to your head forcing you to read every post about Ubuntu. If stories aren't dugg then those type of stories will no longer appear. Simple as that. Don't like it: don't digg it.
nekoJul 10, 2006
Personally I don't like the "drag-and-drop a text selection" feature. When I click and hold inside a text selection, it's because I made it too big and want to re-select, not drag some stupid lump of text around.On the other hand, dragging frequently used programs from the main menu to the top panel is effortless and convenient. And rearranging them with middle-click-drag works well.
Closed AccountJul 10, 2006
I'm asking myself the same thing, actually. Who cares? Like 3 people use this OS.
afexJul 10, 2006
if that was true, then those 3 people's diggs must really be worth something to get this to the front...
drackerJul 10, 2006
While this is getting completely off topic...For intellitxt and the like, and other non-standard ads, you can block them with a greasemonkey script. Adblock won't block intellitxt. <a class="user" href="http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/">http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/</a><a class="user" href="http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/archives/2005/09/29/#item44519">http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks/archives/2005/09/29/#item44519</a>
hobbifiedJul 10, 2006
It doesn't even take GNOME. Or GTK+. KDE has these same features as well, except for the awful text-selection-drag one. So do Macs. So does Windows for the most part. Least notable story EVER.
harrisbradleyJul 10, 2006
(Man, the difference in meaning between the words 'now' and 'not' are so big compared to the differences in spellings.) I digress, this is great. I'm trying to get into Ubuntu, and running into some hitches. These are useful tips.
cosmoticJul 10, 2006
Mac has been able to do this for ... 15 years?
hotaniJul 11, 2006
Exactly, I'm entering the linux desktop world after years of mac use and just expected this functionality. However, it is one of those things (among many) I just never use. Like the desktop.