I hate computers.
Updated work machine to fedora core 3. The user interface
seems to be getting worse and worse. Now every gtk app
has the horrible new file selector widget. It’s almost
as if someone took a list of the things I liked about
the old and intentionally removed all of them and added
some stuff I never use. The only nice feature that
seems to have been added is ability to list files
by last modified. Unfortunately thats only useful
because all the other file filtering abilities
of the old one seem to be gone. Theres no
text entry for a filename unless you hit the
magic key combo (when it works, it seems to
not do anything about half the time I try it, and
I’m not sure why yet). The tab completion is
weak, and “*.mp3
It doesnt understand “~/” anymore. On
my home dir it takes about 20s for it to
build the list of files. Then when you click
a file the dialog resizes. A good
30% of the dialog is to show me a couple
of options I never use. There is also no
way to tell a directory from a file. Not
even a trailing slash on dir names.
I now have a menu entry called “Edutainment”
filled with KDE garbage. Ugh.
Sometimes I hate “progress”.
I decided to look into getting a mac for music
stuff again. A quick browsing of the laptop
and software I want puts the total around the
$5000 mark. Ugh.