boudewijnrempt

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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
It's things like page layout, margins, bleeds, printer profiles, support for printer features... Adding proper printing support could easily take six months, even if Qt already supports the basics. And then it still wouldn't be on
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I actually like the feel of my M1 pro keyboard better than my 1015 15" macbook pro's keyboard. But... That weird lcd strip constantly flickering in the periphery of my vision makes me want to throw the laptop out of the window. Go
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
No... It really just is the sudden drop of investment by Nokia and Intel. All those extra contributors were hires working on Maemo and Meego.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
It's not going to replace the enormous investment Nokia made into the free software/linux community... So it won't help the graphs the original article showed. But by another measure, it's already a success since it exis
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Yes, it does, because Nokia had its fingers in both bowls of porridge, to the extent where people like Michael Meeks were fighting really hard to keep a small library like kcalendar out of Maemo. Nokia started with GTK and when they went to
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I worked there -- as an outside consultant -- quite a few times. It was a pretty ordinary, meh, office building. What I remember most vividly was sitting there in the office with two Nokia people, one quite senior, when the N8 was released,
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
All this wibbling about GNOME 3 and so on -- it's just not relevant to the data in the original article. The same thing happened to KDE at the time. The reason is simple: Nokia. Nokia (and to a much lesser extent, Intel) built up a lot
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
It doesn't mean a translation: it means the original text, its variants with commentary. Basically, it's what you'd use to make a new translation. Or to read for pleasure, if you can read ancient Greek -- which I can't,
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
The thing is, of course, that you don't need to trust the Qt Company. That's why we have the KDE-Free Qt foundation, and that alone makes Qt the best choice for anyone who developers software that can use LGPL libraries, commercia
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Weird, last time I noticed Qt being discussed on HN, I got a really useful and technical comment which is still something I'm basing my future plans on.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Even Autodesk, which uses Qt for pretty much all its products, including Maya, doesn't pay a cent for Qt. Same with The Foundry. As soon as Nokia made LGPL licensed python bindings for Qt, they dropped PyQt, stopped paying or contribut
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
"They cast steel in fires that couldn’t possibly be hot enough in our physics." That's not because of fantasy elements; it's because the author didn't do his research, and instead just went with what he'd seen
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Yes. Everything was painted, and to modern eyes, as gaudily as possible.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
"there are other options." Until the day when there aren't other options -- which isn't so difficult to understand, really.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
As a player you cannot do _anything whatsoever_ to change the setting and rules of the game: you cannot be nicer or less nice to the indigenous people, you have to loot and destroy their religious centers, you have endure having their relig
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
skia isn't the only alternative. Qt includes a pretty complete 2D painting engine as well.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
We took the text, and translated it into Latin, so there was a Latin version of WordPerfect for use in the Vatican. Only the user interface, not the dictionaries or things like that. After all, a cardinal is supposed not to need dictionarie
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
You might need to work on your reading comprehension. Particularly when it comes to sarcasm, or irony. I did quote my teacher verbatim, and he wasn't using neither irony nor sarcasm when calling this tour de force "easy". But
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
The Tibetan script isn't difficult at all. You just need to learn the sound changes for the past five, six hundred years and apply them to logically arrive at "tro" for something written "bsgribs" -- but it's a
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Reveal codes was a crutch. There was nothing great about it, no matter how much it's wrapped in a nostalgic haze now. It's basically telling people "we cannot make this wordprocessor work reliably, please code up your text yo
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
You could also use it in text mode, which was better. But... 5.1 was still so much more stable.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
AmiPro was _not_ a good wordprocessor. It had fatal flaws, like visible redrawing the entire paragraph when changing a single character or adding a single character. And the more text you wrote, the slower it would become, because it would
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
The reason reveal codes isn't available in Word isn't some kind of petty spite. Word just doesn't intersperse formatting codes in the stream like WordPerfect did (or html does, to some extent). It puts all formatting informat
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I certainly found Secular Cycles a compelling read.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Well... It's possible to use QRhi, but the blogpost explicitly says that QRhi is private and "QRhi or the new shader pipeline plays no role here at the moment, in Qt 6.0 at least. "
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Yes.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
We just made it build, which needed a bit of hacking in Qt, and then some hacking in Krita, but it was doable within the scope of a Google Summer of Code. Of course, the devil is in the details, and that's what Sharaf is working on now
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Krita has about 2,500,000 users on Windows alone.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
It is _beta_. Don't use it for production work! I'm currently paying Sharaf who did the original port to work full-time on fixing Android/ChromeOS issues, but we're not even at the stage where we can think of implementin
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Most bread in England in Victorian times was adulterated with plaster of paris.

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