On 06/30/2013 01:06 PM, Claude Zervas wrote: >> Yellow on Mustard just doesn't work > 'doesn't work' is an understatement... Good grief, it might as well be > encrypted. Who could possibly read that? > I installed this plugin for Firefox: > https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/blank-your-monitor-easy-readin/ > and it worked ok if you set the background to white and text to black...
While I admit that the yellow on mustard color scheme is not usable, there's no need to install a plugin. When I encounter hostile HTML color codes like that, I just press ctrl-A to Select All and Firefox makes the selected text blue on a white background. While I'm a LinuxCNC user (and a relatively new user at that) and not a developer, and as such may not be entitled to any opinion on the development process, I nonetheless have a few. :-) I'd first like to say that I'm very appreciative of the work that's gone into LinuxCNC... on the development side and the support side. A big thank you to those who contribute! I appreciate that there is a desire to expand the input to more than just the hardcore developers and integrators who went to Wichita, however, I tuned in to the IRC chat and it seemed like Babel to me. Maybe it's just not my medium, but it seemed that everyone was talking at once, about several overlapping topics. I found it difficult to determine who was responding to whom... like trying to listen to all of the conversations at a party at once. My impression was that such a cacophony is no way to plan anything. The process shouldn't be the most important aspect, but the process does matter. The emphasis seemed to be crossing off agenda items, but it seemed to me that most things were rightly tabled for additional discussion, and the items that were resolved were done in haste, with little reasoned discussion, or they were obvious action items with little dissenting opinion. I have a strong dislike for oligarchies and secretive processes, but I have enough faith in the people who went to Wichita that I assume they'd arrive at better plans with a Wichita roundtable discussion where everyone takes turns talking rather than everyone talking at once. I don't understand the desire to have an online distributed realtime discussion. IRC seems like a good way for a few people to discuss a topic, or one person to pose a technical question to a few others, but a bad way to run a meeting of 20+ people. I think a much better solution would be a discussion that occurs over a few days, where people from all time zones can reply thoughtfully, at their leisure, and everyone can take a few minutes to think about the various suggestions. Whether it's a discussion on this email list or a wiki page doesn't matter to me. What matters is that everyone isn't talking at once, and everyone has time to consider what others are saying rather than engaging in a rapid fire game of Let's Do Something Even If It's Wrong. OK. That being said, I'm a big fan of LinuxCNC, and I can't argue with the results, but if this is the development process, then I think open source LinuxCNC has excelled despite the planning process rather than because of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
