Unwanted notifications

[7leagues]

This latest version 6.1.0.2 now pops up a notification as a separate window whereas previous versions always showed their notifications in the status bar. How can I turn off these notifications so that they revert to the old method please?

[Kilmatead]

Tools -> Advanced Options -> Global -> More options -> "Don't use caption error messages, plain statusbar text is fine"

It's funny how as software developers add more things in the name of progress, users usually just need to disable more things to preserve their sanity.

Don't get me started on Gimp 3 wrecking perfectly good scripts... and I still haven't forgiven Firefox for destroying a whole ecosystem of plugins...

[dunno]

It's funny how as software developers add more things in the name of progress, users usually just need to disable more things to preserve their sanity.

I'm always amazed by this obsession that developers have to alter what's working perfectly well and people have grown accustomed to with regards to UI's. I had spent hours customising Firefox's UI, then after a update EVERYTHING was changed, they had automatically done a complete makeover of the UI, I swore blue thunder and hurled insults at the imaginary firefox developer standing next to me, I sent them a scathing email asking them why they gave me the option of customising the UI but not the option to retain "my settings" which I had spent hours on, I also said that the least they could do was warn the user that the new version would completely alter their UI or just not alter the user's UI at all.

I'm convinced that modern dev's sit around sipping their designer coffee's whilst discussing what fvcking new * OBSCURE COOL* feature they're going to jam down their customers throats, without lube, instead of doing/fixing shit under the hood that NEEDS to be done, and dont get me started on miscrosft...

Moral of the story, if the UI is customisable don't fvck with the users settings, save the settings and ask the user if *IT* wants to retain old UI, and if the user elects to try the new UI save the old layout somewhere, is that so difficult to do ?.

*returns to hammock with instant coffee*

[nikos]

many (most?) people didn't realize that xplorer2 showed error/info messages on the statusbar until these captions appeared

[7leagues]

Tools -> Advanced Options -> Global -> More options -> "Don't use caption error messages, plain statusbar text is fine"

It's funny how as software developers add more things in the name of progress, users usually just need to disable more things to preserve their sanity.

Don't get me started on Gimp 3 wrecking perfectly good scripts... and I still haven't forgiven Firefox for destroying a whole ecosystem of plugins...

Thanks for that.

[Gandolf]

...It's funny how as software developers add more things in the name of progress, users usually just need to disable more things to preserve their sanity...

Or, as I have been forced to do, use a different file manager (or use x² 5.5.0.1) because the change to the dialogue boxes in x² make my scripts unusable (they still work in other file managers)

[Tuxman]

It's funny how as software developers add more things in the name of progress, users usually just need to disable more things to preserve their sanity.

My first halfway productive C++ application was an eMule modification from which I had essentially removed countless functions and tick boxes before adding new ones. The reason was that I was really annoyed by the fact that eMule had so many unnecessary buttons that I had no intention of using.

I admit that I now have a two-pronged approach: my own software is still lightweight (if you can still call software whose runtime, which I can't help, takes up dozens of megabytes alone "lightweight"), but the software I use myself can't really have enough functions. But that shouldn't surprise anyone in a forum that is about a file manager for power users. (Don't we all use power, sometimes?) - Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. For web applications (apart from 42links, I also use Miniflux for RSS feeds, for example), I also prefer solutions that blink and annoy as little as possible. But that's also because web browsers are simply a horrible environment for applications.

When Mozilla had finally buried Firefox in 2017 (Firefox without XUL is pointless, and Mozilla is the last company that still thinks it was not), I switched to Vivaldi instead of some "minimalist" browser. If I can no longer customise ("hack") the browser myself ad nauseam, then it should at least offer me lots of colourful checkboxes to get as close to that as possible.

Whenever I add a new checkbox to one of my applications, I always try to make it have a "sensible" default setting. However, this probably doesn't always work. I'm not sensible.

Don't get me started on Gimp 3 wrecking perfectly good scripts...

You'll love GIMP 4.

The GIMPians took so long to port to Gtk3 (ironic, really, since GTK used to be their very own framework...) that it was actually already outdated before it was released.

There are reasons that I spent money on a good image editing application. One of those reasons is the crappiness of GIMP. Whenever some Linux person wants to tell me how much nicer it is to use one of their "free" toys instead of a good operating environment, I always like to hold up GIMP and Inkscape as examples of how incredibly pathetic "free software" is compared to the hated competition from Adobe and/or Serif (now unfortunately: Canva). Usually nothing more comes of it.

and I still haven't forgiven Firefox for destroying a whole ecosystem of plugins...

Weird minds think alike, sometimes.

By the way, dunno: Most dedicated developers are terrible designers. And I, being a dedicated (and terrible) developer, stand by that.