Posts made by hucker

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Webmails nowadays are better than a decade ago. I have an Outlook based email and there is no noticeable difference between using it in the webmail or in the app.

Local Email:

1. click to open app.
2. click the email you want to read.
   That's it, it's displayed in a 1000th of a second.

Webmail:

1. click to open browser.
2. click to go to webmail page.
3. wait for it to load.
4. log in.
5. wait for it to load.
6. click an email.
7. wait for it to load.
8. get notified you've exceeded your space allowance.
9. fail to open the email because the file format of the attachment confused the system.
10. wonder if they saw the naughty email you just read.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker In the real world, it's not possible to keep all options are preferences forever, some needs to be removed at some point.

Everytime something changes in a software, there are lots of people complaining about it and the same amount praising it.

There wouldn't be if there were options. We used to have options, we could customize windows. There's no need to take away basic stuff like that.

@blackbird71 said in Duplicate Opera installation?:

@hucker said in Duplicate Opera installation?:

@blackbird71 What is the purpose of having it only for one user?

Because some computers are used by multiple users, each with their own user account. Those users may have different preferences regarding application programs, with some users not wanting (or skilled in using) certain apps... so those apps only need be installed for their appropriate users. User accounts in Windows are designed to compartmentalize usage between users, offering better customization potential and greater privacy from one another.

Even single users of computers may use multiple accounts on them to compartmentalize software file access in different ways, and not installing certain apps into certain accounts is one of the ways.

But that's already taken care of as the settings are in the appdata folder. There's no need to hide the software in there, unless you're trying to forbid another person from opening Opera?! Just because it's installed they don't have to use it.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker The color in the title bar is for you to know which app is the active one. If the app is maximized, you know already that it is the active one. At least with one monitor.

You seem to keep changing what you're saying. Just now you said the colour is still present when it's maximised, then you say it isn't.

And who uses one monitor? Somebody who only goes on their computer once a day to read facebook?

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Webmails nowadays are better than a decade ago. I have an Outlook based email and there is no noticeable difference between using it in the webmail or in the app.

I wouldn't use their app either. MS have never made a decent email program. I've only ever used Netscape email (back in the 90s) then Opera.

There's a big difference in speed when what you're clicking is on a 3500MB/sec NVME drive 2 feet to your left or a disk 1000 miles away through a connection passing through hundreds of routers.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker How can't I or anyone not use less email? It's been less and less required each day.

Email nowadays is basically to get offers and notifications. Eventually to get links to confirm a new account or the change the password of an existing one.

Sales and purchases on Ebay. Bank statements. Messages from friends worldwide. Messages from relatives worldwide. Notification of a reply in countless forums. I read about 50 to 100 a day! It's this thing called the internet, and email is an excellent place to gather every incoming communication. Plus there's a the newsgroups in the same program. Try using that on the web, ugh!

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Well, removal of things is a change.

And if something has been removed, it's probably because few people use it or because people prefer other ways of doing the same thing.

The point is we all have different preferences, and they should be left in there. All you need to do is look at the millions of complaints every time Microsoft removes something from Windows. The millions of people using programs like Startallback and Classic Shell. What use is the new start menu? I'm presented with about 20 adverts for games I don't want to install, followed by only 6 "recommended" things, which is a mess of documents I've just opened and programs it thinks I might want. The old menu was very sensible. A customisable number of apps listed in the order of most used. To open any program I click only twice, the start button then the program. Like this:

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker What are you talking about? The color doesn't change when it's maximized.

You're the one who told me it did.
"It's maximized, you are seeing it, it's the active app. No need to use any color."
"Right, but the title bar color wouldn't make any difference with the app maximized."

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker I use email, although 90% less than a decade ago, but I don't use an email client. I just use webmail.

How can you use email less? Every single thing you do online needs password confirmations etc. Contact for everything is by email, I don't get bank statements by post anymore. I got the notification you'd posted in here through email. It's used for absolutely everything.

How can you use webmail? It's so basic and clumsy. You're actually accessing your own emails on a server somewhere else, introducing pointless delays when you click anything.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker I didn't say anything about it being good or bad, I was talking about adaption to changes.

That's my point, it's not changes, it's removal of things. Where is most recently used in the start menu? I start every single program using that. I had to install 3rd party software. Why remove it?

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker That would be the exception.

Even if you have one monitor (which means you don't take your computer seriously), why change the colour just because it's maximised? There needs to be two colours for when they're not maximised. Why have a third colour?

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker I was an Opera Mail user when it was part of Opera Presto. When it becomes a standalone app, I just realized that I didn't need an email client.

How can you not use email? Email is needed for everything nowadays. Please don't tell me you prefer webmail. That's a cobbled together workaround for accessing email when you're on holiday.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Hmm, it seems that someone has some difficulties in adapting to changes. Or it would be that someone needs to get some attention and start complaining about things that have been there for a long time?

Which change are you saying is for the better? I've seen no improvements anywhere, just less personalisation and less consistency.

@leocg But it does, I still get the correct foreground colour in most apps when they're maximised.

And you're forgetting some people have more than one monitor. I have 5! Not enough room on one.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Opera Mail is from more than a decade ago, things were different back on that time.

I still use it, it's a brilliant program and they should never have abandoned it. I use it for email and newgroups and it's got a brilliant filtering/sorting system. Only drawback is the index gets very clogged up and I have to do regular tidying up.

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Opera Mail is from more than a decade ago, things were different back on that time.

Yes, different as in they worked. Everything gets less sensible as time goes on. The number of things they've removed in Windows 11 since Windows 7 is absurd. The start menu is completely unusable, you have to install 3rd party software to make it work again. Modern apps are so vague, you just have to hope they're going to do what you say. There's no standard for changing settings - some things require an ok/apply button, some change instantly. Will it stay the way I put it or should I look for an ok button?

@leocg said in Title bar ignores Windows setting, but Chrome obeys it!:

@hucker Right, but the title bar color wouldn't make any difference with the app maximized.

Being maximised doesn't change what the title bar colour does.

@leocg Yes I noticed that, but it's about 1 pixel wide, so hardly noticeable, and it's not there at all if it's maximised.

Opera Mail has tabs and that has a changing bar colour, so it is possible. They've just chosen to pointlessly remove something useful.

@blackbird71 What is the purpose of having it only for one user?

@leocg Ok I guess I've installed it more than once trying to fix something. I don't understand why they share the same settings though.