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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:04 JST mcc

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   Okay so I took a suggestion to use the "custom" (Electron) menus instead of the native menus and this actually substantially improved things! But I don't understand why the gnome native menus act *less* like native gnome menus than the fake javascript menus. Maybe literally every other app on my system is using gnome menus incorrectly and that's why I think gnome menus don't fade https://mas.to/@peter_mcmahan/113250104523729533

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:04 JST mcc

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     I've really gotta get off Ubuntu and probably off GNOME. My apps keep doing a thing where I open them, and they give me a popup saying they need to update. I click the popup and nothing happens. I close the app and reopen it and I get the popup again. The only way to make this go away is to close the app, count slowly to ten, and then open it again. This is silly.

     I'm not asking for help here. I'm just complaining. I know the solution and it's to switch to Pop_OS! (maybe Redhat).

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:04 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @mcc yeah, never had good experience with snaps

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:05 JST mcc

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     Hey, which of these Rust plugins for VSC is real and which is a trap. And if they're both real then why do they both exist

     Edit: The first one is actually a bundle, containing rust-analyzer and two other plugins which aren't really worth it

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:05 JST mcc

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     So this is really minor and petty but here's my real VS Code beef. All the light mode themes look ugly. The default dark mode themes look fine (if all the same) to me, but I don't prefer dark mode. But all the light mode themes like picking either muted earthtones that are hard to differentiate from normal text, or light pastels that are hard to differentate from the background. There are 10,000 themes for download but they all look the same for me. (Comparison: The Sublime Text theme I like)

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:05 JST mcc

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     It's possible that no one except me could tell the difference between these two screenshots and I'm just really picky. But I think it's reasonable to be picky when I stare at a program 6 hours a day.

     While I'm whining, two other things that confuse me about VSC:

     - Why are the menus so slow to open on Linux. They don't seem this slow to react to clicks on Windows. Also, why do the menus have a *fade in animation*?

     - Look close at this bizarre shape in the upper left in light mode. Menu bleed

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 01:48:06 JST mcc

     Trying out VS Code instead of Sublime Text this morning for my Rust project. It's just uncanny. It's like someone tried to replicate Sublime Text feature for feature from a list but didn't really understand why Sublime Text felt nice

     (Yes I get in reality there's a game-of-telephone step in between with Atom.)