Trying out full graphical eye candy...

http://phraktured.net/blog/?p=34
Anyone done anything similar? I'd be interested to know your stories/problems/etc
Also, anyone have any opinions on any of the pieces used there? Like "grub splashimages are shite!"?

I've never used a grub splashimage, but I am using gensplash (fbsplash, whatever) to have a nice boot splash and console backgrounds. I'm not running anything like GDM, KDM or SliM, either. I'm currently experimenting with having periodically updated bump-mapped, hi-res, GIS enabled (show positions of storms and such on globe) globes via xplanet as my X background. I'm still working on that GIS enabled part, but the rest is working great.
I'm a fan of eyecandy because I feel that if you're going to use a computer for hours, then it ought to be pleasing to look at your user interface. I'm enjoying this xplanet background so much that I wish something more dynamic were out there for linux.

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Hello, I'm running PS CS5 64 bit/Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I rely heavily on Imagenomic Portraiture Plug-In, but since installing 64 bit Photoshop on 64 bit Windows I have not been able to use Eye Candy or Photo Tools. With Portraiture installed, installing either Eye Candy or Photo Tools causes Photoshop to crash on opening. I have searched this forum and the Internet in general but have not seen anything on this. I had a fairly long thread going with an Alien Skin rep who stated:
Jim White, Mar-11 16:08 (EST):
Yes. There is a bug in their plug-in that fails to correctly isolate the plug-ins from one another. They addressed this in the 32-bit version with an update, but last time I checked they had not updated the 64-bit versions. I sent a couple of emails to them but never received a response. You can check to make sure that is the problem by dragging their plug-in out onto the desktop, restarting Photoshop, and trying our program again.
I made the problem go away by doing his test. I have not posted to Imagenomic yet (they are next) but have searched their forum and have not seen anything about this conflict. I have the latest Portraiture version which is many moons old.
Has anybody here dealt with this conflict? Is this the right place to post this subject? I don't see anything about plug-ins here.
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leroydouglas wrote:
StephenHarding wrote:
Please tell me that there is some way to make it so I can change the three finger swipe to go back a page if I swipe to the right.
That is counterintuitive. I suspect you uncheck this box but with other ramifications.
As I understand it, with natural scrolling the paradigm is that you are directly manipulating the content as opposed to manipulating the scroll bar. That is why you do a two fingered drag from the bottom of a trackpad to the top in order to scroll towards the bottom of the page. Similarly, if the app supports it, when you swipe from left to right you should get the previous page (this works in safari). If the app doesn't support the two finger swipe gesture you have to use the three finger swipe. Unfortunately, the swipe direction is in the opposite direction. In order to go back a page you need to swipe from left to right.
You said: "That is counterintuitive. I suspect you uncheck this box but with other ramifications."
Apart from being grammatically incorrect, the statement seems to indicate an incomplete understanding on your part of natural scrolling.
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I have tried re-installing the plugins and FW, but that didn't change anything. I deleted the preferences and that didn't help either. All my other plugins work fine. Any ideas?

Thanks for posting. We had to discontinue support for Fireworks due to multiple issues caused by the Live Effects. At this time we do not have any plans to bring back support for Fireworks, but that could change. I can not make any promises on that matter though. If you are on a Windows computer, you stand a better chance at getting it to work than if you are on a Mac, but still, the success rate on Windows is about 50%.
Since the gold standard for plug-ins is Photoshop compatiblity, Fireworks should in theory handle them. Since it won't it's likely Adobe has either inadvertently broken something, or they are only allowing older plugins to run. Since we are always updating and using the latest versions of software to create out plug-ins, this creates an extra layer of possible problems. Eitherway, complaining to Adobe in mass, would be the best route to take. Im sure it seems like the requests go into a void, but if you get a lot of people asking for the same thing, you may get a response.
Rest assured, if we ever decided to bring back Fireworks support, we will scream it from the top of every mountain.
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Hi all:
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>My suggestion is for Adobe to make a video test tool that users could
>use to validate their video hardware and software
Well, see it that way: The trial is your testing tool. As your failed attempts with that game-centric tool more than eloquently prove, there's a fundamental difference between an abstract capabilities test and using features in a practical implementation. Come to think of it, any testing tool that would provide a maximum breadth of possible scenarios would probably be quite complex in itself, drawing resources from fixing stuff in the programs themselves. I know it's a *****, but consider that vendors of other programs face the same situation. It may look smooth on the surface, but from personal involvement I know that even e.g. in 3D programs sometimes programmers will implement a specific workaround for only a given graphics card or series of cards that does not comply to the (theoretically) unified standards of OpenGL. It's not much different for Adobe, for sure. At best, one could argue that they had all the money to buy every card and test it, but even that doesn't hold true. In a way, that race has long been lost, as sad as it is...
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Enough Already.... Turning off Eye Candy Animations

Hi....
I love this app...
Now that is out a the way...
It kills me to have to watch all those wild animations.... Fades etc... Every time I move the mouse from one window to another...
I would like to turn them off...
WHY on earth do we need to see a clip being disabled.... FADE OUT... Just set the opacity to ZERO instead of wasting processing power.
Moving the mouse from i.e. even lib. to timeline makes the timeline turn "fade in" like some 5$ flash website programmed by an amateur...
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No... I can turn off skimming all I want, hitting i.e V to disable a clip makes it fade out to a state of gray instead of just being gray...
In the colorboard click on correction one's right-arrow to open the color correction tools.. It will slide on...
all those effects...
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Hello.
I am still on Tiger, and have not jumped to Leopard because I spend a lot of time remoting into my machine from work. My husband, who has Leopard, is always complaining about how his system is virtually unusable because the performance is so bad while waiting for all the Leopard "eye candy" to draw. He's tried my system from his work, and it's much much faster.
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What VNC server?
What VNC Client?
I have found that the Leopard to Leopard provided Server/Client combo to be very efficient over an internet connection.
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The JollysFastVNC client is actually fairly good for a 3rd party client.
Using all 3rd party VNC components, I have found that using the Vine Server (aka OSXvnc) and Chicken of the VNC WITH CotVNC set to use only 8 bit color (or even 16 bit color) to be fairly good over a slow DSL connection between my Mom's system and myself. Of course I'm not interested in fantastic color from my Mom's system. I'm just trying to do admin tasks without driving 300 miles one way.
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Could you not word things so annoyingly?
Your post started out well enough then bleeded into what I would expect from a mandrake lover defending his love of KDE.
Short of that I found the "article" little more than the same old ramblings of an insane GNOME user going on about the linux desktop "situation".
I can't help but have a laugh every time I read these little rants and continue to hope they just "go away".
I bet in about 5 years we'll be reading about how HURD is the next big thing but just not "newb" friendly enough and/or doesn't look as good as it could.

Visual effects "eye candy" is way too slow! love t...

why? oh why Nokia? please offer a way to turn OFF THE VISUAL GARBAGE! I am a nokia fan because of the speed and efficiency of your software NOT EYE CANDY! I have dumped a cell carrier costing me $1000's for 5 phone lines to be with you on tmobile! and you dont even have 3g support for them! I WOULD BUY ALL E63'S EXCEPT THE E72 HAS OVI MAPS AND more memory, faster processor and way better looks! except of course for the 'eye candy'! GET RID OF IT! MAKE YOUR DEVICES EFFICIENT! It is going to win in the real world, every time if you combine it with FEATURES like you are doing better than most!

thanks. I have spent weeks working thru all these settings to make this work. Now all I need to do is to figure out how to have the ui stop popping up messages such as prompting to connect to the inet? and why cant I simply choose when I want to connect to which inet connection??

I like eye candy don't you like eye candy too?

Now here's an interesting read and a glimpse of the probable future of X. Yeah I know it's Gnome propaganda and all and you hate eye candy. Well, don't read it! (In fact it has more to do with X than Gnome )
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xrendering

Could you not word things so annoyingly?
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Short of that I found the "article" little more than the same old ramblings of an insane GNOME user going on about the linux desktop "situation".
I can't help but have a laugh every time I read these little rants and continue to hope they just "go away".
I bet in about 5 years we'll be reading about how HURD is the next big thing but just not "newb" friendly enough and/or doesn't look as good as it could.

KDE Eye Candy

Hello all you KDE users!
I want to put together a temporary KDE Eye Candy repository with a view to adding all the pkgs to the AUR and then to [community] for the most popular. Some pkgs already exist in AUR but I want to tidy them up and standardize them. The name should depnd on kde-look classification. I am proposing the following names for KDE Eye Candy pkgs:
kdedecor-$name - for kwin decor pkgs
kdestyle-$name - for styles/themes
kdeicons-$name - for icon pkgs
kdesplash-$name - for splash screens
I will collate all existing pkgs with new naming schemes into a temporary repo - from there we will move them back to the AUR.
We also need to figure out exactly what the dependecies are: kdelibs, qt, kdeartwork...what?!
Hope to get some willing contributors!
[kdei] repository pkg list
UPDATED: Sun Apr 16 14:25:19 BST 2006
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Dibble, I followed your post 2 exactly as it was written. My /etc/pacman.conf :
# /etc/pacman.conf
# NOTE: If you find a mirror that is geographically close to you, please
# move it to the top of the server list, so pacman will choose it
# first.
# To re-sort your mirror lists by ping/traceroute results, use the
# /usr/bin/sortmirrors script. It requires the "netselect" package.
# See the pacman manpage for option directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
NoUpgrade = etc/passwd etc/group etc/shadow etc/sudoers
NoUpgrade = etc/fstab etc/raidtab etc/ld.so.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local
NoUpgrade = etc/modprobe.conf etc/modules.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/lilo.conf boot/grub/menu.lst
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/snarf -N %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -c %u
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here.
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#[testing]
#Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686
[current]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/current
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
[kdei]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/kdei
#[unstable]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable
#[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
And /etc/pacman.d/kdei :
# kdei: kde eye candy pkg repo
[kdei]
Server = http://dtw.jiwe.org/pkgs/kdei
Result :
# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
connect: Connection timed out
error: cannot connect to dtw.jiwe.org
failed to synchronize kdei
error: could not open sync database: kdei
have you used --refresh yet?
Are u sure you made it temporarily available ?

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If you paid for what you used then it was not a trial.
Look thru the following links and use the chat option if required for your situation:
Cancel your membership or subscription | Creative Cloud
https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cancel-membership-subscription.html
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1703848
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http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service-ccm.html ( http://adobe.ly/19llvMN )
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For starters, rename javaprogram.java to Displayer.java and dojavac Displayer.java
java Displayerand since you are new to Java, change your source code to public class Displayer.
In Java, files containing a Java class named "ClassName" should/have to be named "ClassName.java".

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Can someone please help me?
I am trying out Final Cut Pro X on a 30 day trial. So far so good.
I am now trying desperately to import a project from iMovie 11 (version 9.0.9) into FCPX.
I have read multiple posts on this subject and they all recommend File/import/ from iMovie project in FCPX
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The current version of FCPX does not work with that version of iMovie. You need version 10.0.3, which allows you to send a project to FCP.

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