> The state of WMs on Linux is really, really more complicated than it needs to be.
Choice is always going to be a prominent force in Linux. There will always be folks who are going to write new toolkits and apps and there they will find users who would want to promote it. That is just the nature of Open source.
That being said I think no one really likes to use GTK+ app if they are targeting multiple desktop environment and operating system. Ubuntu's Unity 8 and KDE both are using Qt and Qt is already available on all possible platforms including Android.
I haven't done a whole lot of GUI development, but I briefly looked at Qt and it seemed like it cost a huge amount of money to use, so I wrote it off. Is that not the case?
I have been looking into setting up SSL for my blog. There currently no free way to get SSL certificates. There are some free ones but they tend to come with strings and lure you into paid plans. I am not sure if this proposal is the best.
The free version doesn't come with wild card. So if you run multiple stuff off your VPS you will have to upgrade. I currently use self-signed certificate for everything except when I serve content to public I switch to http.
It really depends on what exactly you are talking about. For a Man-in-the-middle attack, your statement is false. For passive dragnet surveillance, your statement is true.
Doesn't really matter, does it? Even if MITM attacks are 99% of all attacks that doesn't leave you any worse of with a self-signed certificate. Better yet you are able to use a root certificate only trusted by most, rather than all, browsers because you secure that much of your traffic (which could easily be the 80+% that runs a modern browser, just not the few virus infected XP machines) which would enable actual innovation among CAs.
I have been running Firefox for almost a month now. The divide between firefox and Chrome is getting bigger and bigger.
1. What do you guys think about sidebars and multiple toolbars? There is only a limited space available on screens these days for most people. I find them very archaic.
2. Dropdown arrows - I also don't understand the purpose of actually showing that if you click here a menu will open. A folder expands when you click it. There is nothing to be said about it.
3. Lack of overlay icons. There is literally a block with yellow background which shows number.
4. Lack of interest in devs to innovate on Firefox. There is a difference in versions of Evernote webclipper for Firefox and Chrome. Diigo extension is in atrocious condition.
Why do you think a solid browser like Firefox is lagging behind in UI compared to Chrome?
It depends on your point of view, I could bring up similar arguments with Chrome. There is still no way in Chrome to open more than 25 tabs without the tabs being so small we can't see them and the Settings page of Chrome is not an example of clean UI either.
They both are great browser. I am not trying to say one is good and other is bad. What I am trying to say is that because of the reasons mentioned above it has been hard for me to adopt to Firefox. Chrome is Google's platform they want to push their services and has become more of an application platform with Chrome only apps and less of a browser. I would like a browser that promotes a free web.
For example, Diigo's addon doesn't have overlay icon so it is impossible for me to tell if I have already bookmarked a page or not. Like many addons on Firefox Diigo has both sidebar and toolbar. So basically they have developed 3 UI elements and none of which work well. There is clearly Diigo's fault here but applications are as good as platform.
Well said. I have been trying out ZNC for a few days. It wasn't really a fun to setup ZNC. There are things that I just don't understand. ZNC comes with a bunch of modules that you could use to extend its functionality. It is really hard for me to understand those when I am new to both Bouncers and IRC. Then there are no standards. ZNC uses a username but IRC doesn't really have a concept of username. It is usually Channel, Nick, and password. IRC also has concepts like Ident which are hard for general users to understand. I have setup ZNC but the setup is not complete yet.
I am not well aware of history of XMPP and IRC. I wonder if lack of interest in the organizations that control these protocols have lead to numerous versions of them that there are today. Slack has an IRC gateway and Facebook uses XMPP. Both of these protocols are widely used but have becomes too different from the core concept.
You should try using Quassel — it's the perfect solution for an IRC Bouncer/Client-combo, it feels like any modern solution (aka infinite scroll to read previous messages, clients for the bouncer on every platform, etc).
It's an amazing solution. So amazing, that I actually started commuting to the Quassel Android client, just because I want to give something back to this community.
Actually chat secure on android makes facebook chat almost plesant (and those "in the know" can enable otr). Such a shame fb doesn't do federation and google pretty much killed xmpp altogether. I was this close to having a chat platform other than sms that I enjoyed and could share with non-technical friends without hassle. I loje IRC - but so far not on mobile. Anyone have a favorite (preferably Free as in freedom) cliebt for Android?
Conversations is a nice XMPP client for Android. It's under GPLv3, is in F-Droid and Google Play (costs 1$ in Google Play, though) and is probably the best XMPP client for Android :)
I am in a position where I know a little of Markdown and a little of reStructuredText. Considering the little time I have and I have to learn a language I would want to learn something that is extensible. Isn't that a valid reasoning?
Free account doesn't have domain aliases. Does that mean I can't use personal@my-domain.org and work@my-domain.org all pointing to one inbox?
Since they allow 10 users with each 5gb inbox that means I have 10 different inboxes that can be personal@my-domain.org or work@my-domain.org or mailing-list@my-domain.org.
No custom url? Does that mean no custom domain allowed?
Choice is always going to be a prominent force in Linux. There will always be folks who are going to write new toolkits and apps and there they will find users who would want to promote it. That is just the nature of Open source.
That being said I think no one really likes to use GTK+ app if they are targeting multiple desktop environment and operating system. Ubuntu's Unity 8 and KDE both are using Qt and Qt is already available on all possible platforms including Android.