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  • kazerniel@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this buttonEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Reminds me of that story about Windows’s format dialog. It’s on Xitter, so here’s the text:

    Dave W Plummer

    I wrote [Windows’s] Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

    We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

    I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

    Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

    That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in “temporary” solutions!

    I also had to decide how much “cluster slack” would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

    So remember… there are no “temporary” checkins :)

  • kazerniel@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know AboutEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not sure why you’re being this hostile.

    CMYK is easy to work around.

    But that’s the point, that you need workarounds for such a simple and (if you work with printed materials) essential feature.

    So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn’t matter?

    That’s literally not what I said, just that I don’t think it’s necessarily the best based on what I’ve read. I agree that it being FLOSS raises its appeal quite a bit, but it’s not quite there yet to replace Illustrator for me.

    Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that’s totally fine by me. :-)

    Yeah, Adobe’s predatory pricing is why I’m not paying for it. But sadly it’s still the only tool I found that has all the features I need.

    Oh, if you’d be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can’t do?

    A CMYK file lol. But I’m not going to do work for you, you’re clearly not engaging in good faith.