On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > After two days of trying to google ways to get audio on the hdmi output > on a shiny new Udoo X86 running debian 9.0.0, sheer gritted-teeth > determination, smacking the walls of the GUI rat's maze lucked onto the > deeply concealed interface. > > On the LXDE desktop, the "Sound & Video" -> "PulseAudio Volume Control" > menu item has only 3 widely spaced tabs, underutilising the chosen > window width, and the "Output Ports" tab offered no management or > configuration possibilities. > > But there are two tiny dark triangles in the corners. Clicking on the RH > one leads to an unnecessarily hidden tab, "Input Devices", and clicking > again reveals "Configuration". There, in a "Profile" selection box, it > is possible to select "Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output". Once selected, it > even seems to be the power-on default. (Much to my surprise, given the > user-hostile perversity of the devious GUI design, deliberately made > unnecessarily narrow, so that two vital tabs could be hidden from the > user, without the most tenuous rational reason for doing so.) > > Granted, the purpose of a GUI is to put access to necessary functions > at the end of deep maze rat runs - but invisible secret tabs with double > blind access?! I do believe that some of these devs are being paid by > Microsoft to paralyse linux. (If not, we know that they were born > arse-backwards, and have never turned around.) > > There is no rational explanation for failing to make all 5 tabs visible. > > Erik > (Who in 30 years of s/w development never let a team member produce crap > like that.) >
I think there are two things going on here. One is that many devs get huge displays to make it easier to code, and then forget what the ordinary-sized displays are like. So they get careless about the constraints imposed by ordinary-sized screens. Another is that many devs are trying to support tablets without designing a separate UI for them. So they cram too much in. -- Joel Rees One of these days I'll get someone to pay me to design a language that combines the best of Forth and C. Then I'll be able to leap wide instruction sets with a single #ifdef, run faster than a speeding infinite loop with a #define, and stop all integer size bugs with my bare cast. http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/06/reinventing-computers.html More of my delusions: http://reiisi.blogspot.com/2017/05/do-not-pay-modern-danegeld-ransomware.html http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/p/novels-i-am-writing.html
