Post Aw4t80cMHeEbACSvse by troldann@techhub.social
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(DIR) Post #Aw4sQTgcqSwuZqhjJg by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:12:51Z
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as a professional maker of bad keyboards, I'd like to show my appreciation for Steelseries's idea to organize a keyboard /categorically/. POPQUIZ: what category is "enter" under?
(DIR) Post #Aw4sWyEYBUwn3TfV0S by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:14:02Z
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one of the problems with being a retrocomputerist is how often I use a 2025 program and think "this program would be just as functional and 10 times as nice to use if you'd written it for windows 95"
(DIR) Post #Aw4sZjYfCjdoPNOTb6 by troldann@techhub.social
2025-07-13T03:14:16Z
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@foone Editing? Maybe? I hope?
(DIR) Post #Aw4sd7RUrKgdLxeia8 by bryanredeagle@beige.party
2025-07-13T03:15:04Z
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@foone before I read any comments, I'm going to say navigation.
(DIR) Post #Aw4sgfaeM6jE83d8OO by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:15:37Z
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@swiftyshq Sorry, nope! Commands are like "Print Screen", "Pause/Break", and "Context Menu"
(DIR) Post #Aw4sjQz17WpDh9LVc8 by smn@l3ib.org
2025-07-13T03:16:10Z
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@foone editing?
(DIR) Post #Aw4smTllDZWPClb5gu by Nekoplanet@paquita.masto.host
2025-07-13T03:16:17Z
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@foone me whenever I see most of post skeunorphic mobile apps
(DIR) Post #Aw4spmT49bNK49QYVs by bryanredeagle@beige.party
2025-07-13T03:16:20Z
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@foone and probably faster. My favorite part of modern day terminal apps is how snappy they are.
(DIR) Post #Aw4srHSaPXFaTauzB2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:16:20Z
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@superpositionedkat Sorry, that's Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, Num Lock, and Insert.
(DIR) Post #Aw4suKBmil6xoDVjjE by Nekoplanet@paquita.masto.host
2025-07-13T03:16:54Z
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@foone navigation or command
(DIR) Post #Aw4swoYSnCkwZ9J1SS by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:17:50Z
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@troldann Bingo! Editing contains Enter, Escape, Backspace, Tab, Space, and Delete.
(DIR) Post #Aw4szDTJ7iAIQJ2Vbk by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:17:59Z
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@smn Bingo! Editing contains Enter, Escape, Backspace, Tab, Space, and Delete.
(DIR) Post #Aw4t2eByEZrGADZAem by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:18:27Z
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@eblu Nope, that's Home, Page Up, End, and Page Down. in that order.
(DIR) Post #Aw4t51Lz5iDGZqNkAq by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:19:32Z
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The answer is Editingwhich contains: Enter, Escape, Backspace, Tab, Space, and Delete.
(DIR) Post #Aw4t80cMHeEbACSvse by troldann@techhub.social
2025-07-13T03:20:08Z
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@foone I don't think that's where I'd have thought to put Escape...I feel like that would be in Function, Commands, or Navigation. Which is obviously terrible because it means we just have confusion.
(DIR) Post #Aw4tQRzFGSgzGAxqk4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:24:07Z
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also note that this dialog box is:1. slightly too small to show all the categories, even before you start expanding them2. non-resizable
(DIR) Post #Aw4tYMkKdHVTK6lNAG by bryanredeagle@beige.party
2025-07-13T03:25:28Z
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@foone That dialog box sounds like a hate crime.
(DIR) Post #Aw4tbL1NVETIqG9aHQ by 0xF21D@infosec.exchange
2025-07-13T03:26:03Z
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@foone I don’t understand why they don’t just show a keyboard so you can select the key you want.
(DIR) Post #Aw4tqWTbC9AgiHauPY by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:28:50Z
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I don't think this is an oversight, rather it's a technical limitation:Their ad-hoc windowing system in this Electron container doesn't support resizable pop-up windows.
(DIR) Post #Aw4uGcj8ZszJd1JAGW by static@aus.social
2025-07-13T03:33:27Z
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@foone Electron was such a mistake.
(DIR) Post #Aw4uk7v5gOJEljy2KG by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:38:51Z
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So I've been hacking on DOS programs a lot recently and it's really made me realize HOW MUCH CODE they have to spend on basic windowing code! but DOS didn't have a GUI, so every program that needed it had to implement it themselves. And then later, with Windows providing all that code, they only have to write the application-specific code, saving a lot of development and maintenance work.
(DIR) Post #Aw4uqy50fMB2HHrweW by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:40:00Z
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thank goodness we haven't backslid on the quality of our graphical user interfaces by making everything a fucking webpage.
(DIR) Post #Aw4vh7KjVSkK2H5eVs by jesse@social.jelliefrontier.net
2025-07-13T03:44:15Z
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@foone Why didn't they just use a picture of a keyboard and you can click the key you'd like to choose? That's what Steam Input does, and it's super intuitive.
(DIR) Post #Aw4w77IgFgvVSiWm7E by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-07-13T03:54:11Z
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@foone the first time i ever did data entry work was on a Wyse terminal connected to some COBOL mainframe, and it was the only time i've encountered enter and return doing different things. "enter" literally meant "enter the data on the screen as a record", and return was likewise just a carriage return.
(DIR) Post #Aw4w9hyMsNLFmLGKJ6 by smn@l3ib.org
2025-07-13T03:54:40Z
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@foone
(DIR) Post #Aw4wUWuRCkHtY0Luuu by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T03:58:19Z
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@aburka exactly!
(DIR) Post #Aw4xNTiAnNrBYZojJI by c3manu@chaos.social
2025-07-13T04:08:20Z
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@foone huh, how are Enter, Backspace and Tab not on the "Arrow" category, where they clearly belong? 🧐
(DIR) Post #Aw5EcXSKr0nCjcAzs8 by womble@infosec.exchange
2025-07-13T07:21:26Z
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@foone it's fine, though, because everyone just embeds 14MB of JavaScript (that has zero cache control headers, so it gets downloaded and parsed on every page load) to provide a half-arsed GUI toolkit. Further, since there are more of these libraries than there are JS developers, no two sites look, feel, or behave the same.*takes deep, relaxing breath*Thankyou, I feel better now.
(DIR) Post #Aw5Exc3MxMQ14fY0um by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T07:25:24Z
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@womble byte for byte it'd probably be smaller and more consistent to just embed a copy of DOSBox and Windows 3.1. I should prototype that: a new GUI solution for the web... it's just windows 3.1 in an emulator!
(DIR) Post #Aw5F3mPZMH9cw8s8YK by 9hax@chaos.social
2025-07-13T07:26:13Z
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@foone I guess under Navigation?
(DIR) Post #Aw5FD2LVU2xuxlNzua by foone@digipres.club
2025-07-13T07:28:13Z
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@9hax https://digipres.club/@foone/114843759885824634
(DIR) Post #Aw5FtzAx97pbaBvfg8 by womble@infosec.exchange
2025-07-13T07:35:57Z
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@foone yes... joke...
(DIR) Post #Aw5JNMl8qDtizEYcRk by eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-13T08:14:47Z
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@foone meanwhile games are still writing all their own GUI code to this day 😩
(DIR) Post #Aw5Qj6PV0To4KZkJd2 by bogind@mapstodon.space
2025-07-13T09:37:03Z
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@foone True greatness would be to change the text in the arch/ribbon to "HALL OF FOONE"
(DIR) Post #Aw5d1MUt8LBMszjwMS by casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de
2025-07-13T11:54:51Z
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@foone @womble It would likely also be easier to develop for as you could use stuff like Delphi or Visual Basic.
(DIR) Post #Aw5gt245cFIX15UMfw by lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-13T12:38:13Z
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@foone, but not Return? FAIL.