Hello, MATE developers! Anybody home?

Yeah, I totally get it. Development does not like distractions. You in your ivory tower do not want to be pestered with those pesky bug reports or feature requests. But when you type away and get no feedback from your users you risk developing something that does not work, as is the case with MATE.

Actually, folks, you never tested your touchscreen functionality, and you do not know that a touch of MATE desktop positions the mouse cursor 1/2" to the right and 1/4" down versus the finger position. This makes it impossible to point at UI elements along the left and bottom edges of the screen. But who cares? You clearly do not.

The thing is that you have totally insulated yourselves from your quite faithful user base, by not having a bug tracker, forum, or other means of contacting you. Your IRC channel is dead. End of the road. Congratulations!

Posted by: LinuxLies at 07:37 AM | No Comments | Add Comment
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Genius degenerates rule our world

Everyone who uses VirtualBox extensively knows about its keyboard shortcuts and likely disables Reset, Shutdown, and other power control combinations for VMs. Nice? No shit! Except that there is no way to disable the power button for the VM. Even if the host OSs power button is set to Sleep, the machine still processes it in the manner that is set up in the guest, i.e. if the guest has not yet been configured to sleep or do nothing then, TADA!, depressing the physical power button on the host PC will shut down the guest OS. Nice? Hell no!

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#!trpst#trp-gettext data-trpgettextoriginal=3#!trpen#

This wonderful question sums it all up: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/263389/why-is-php-so-hated

This will keep coming up in searches, and for a good reason: every word of it and some of its answers and comments is gold.

The reason being that when something in Wordpress does not work it is always someone else's fault. Ask about the subject of this post: Why am I getting this from my translated site? And the answer is always: You have a plugin or theme conflict.

Dude! For crying out loud! If you develop your translation plugin that is going to fail if other plugins are present, then you are not doing your job. You are wasting webmasters' time and resources and only aggravating them. Quit writing code and go back to what you do well: play video games in your mom's basement.

Here's a joke analogy for you:

An IT pro goes to work for the city hall as a 9-1-1 operator. He gets a call, and the caller says that a 2-storey office building is on fire. His reply is: There is a 2-storey office building right in front of me, but it is not on fire, so yours should not be either.

Amen. This sums up their attitude.

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