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Usability Woes

Quote from http://daringfireball.net/2004/04/spray_on_usability: Oh, I see: the problem is that Linux developers are just so fucking smart that they overlook the problems faced by “dumb users” such as...

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I’m sorry, I just prefer a mouse with more than one button

It reeks of some form of elitism, and lets be honest using X for so long made a three button mouse mandatory, what with the middle button paste thing, which I love and try to recreate on the PC when...

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Samsung… what kind of crap is that UI?

My sister bought my Aunt a mobile phone. Dear god but it is such an unusable piece of crap. It reminds me of the worst things about the phone I first bought, but thought were really cool at the time....

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Whiney applications…

If there’s one thing I can’t really stand, it’s applications that whinge about everything that goes wrong with an array of practically useless dialogs. One of my biggest gripes at the moment is of all...

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Don’t just install everything into /usr/local

If you use windows then this is probably going to be very, very boring. Every now and again you find yourself needing to install some piece of software on your computer from a source package. You tar...

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Using snapshots would make ‘don’t install into /usr/local’ easier

Strangely enough, I had actually thought of this before I made the post. Snapshots are a wonderful feature in zfs which allow you to take point in time images of a filesystem that are mutable and which...

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For a text mode browser links is pretty useful

How can you tell if your website is usable by anyone? Well one of the simplest ways is to use a text mode browser. It gives you a good idea as to how easy it is to navigate without having to spend the...

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Don’t hide or disable menu items…

The suggestion by Joel to not hide or disable menu items is a good one. There’s only one issue. With the way it’s worded you could end up with a swarm of dialogs. I would suggest some form of...

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This gnome tab-rip thing is just killing me

Aargh, it’s too bloody easy to rip off these tabs and there’s no way to re-attach them from what I can tell. Something about the sensitivity pop-up menus and the tab drag thing has been tuned up. It’s...

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