Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Hello, On Mon, 04 Jan 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > >That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such >word as initramfs. :) Naahh, can't be. Must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 19:10:36 Dale wrote: > Yea, I got tired of trying to figure out what was called what. The word > thingy hit me and I use it for the init thingys, thingies, and a few > other things now. Just don't get me started on hal again. That thingy > still pisses me off. I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such word as initramfs. :) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> "half as big again" means "50% larger than". > That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have > 1.5 x the original. > >> i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. >> It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most >> positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just >> doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors >> and

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 15:24:35 -0600, Dale wrote: > I might add, this is why when I read a email, I try to put the most > positive light on it. Sometimes even a native English speaker just > doesn't quite get the right thing to come out. Add in spelling errors > and such or someone speaking

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:08:21 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > > That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any > such word as initramfs. :) Of course there is such a word, you just used it ;-) -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > qt4. > > > > > > I don't quite get that. > > > > ?? > > Both images are the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the > > > > > qt4. > > > > > > > > I don't quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:08:32 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Welcome to Pedants Anonymous :) Come on Peter, pedants are anything but anonymous. We^H^HThey like to nit-pick from the rooftops :) -- Neil Bothwick Veni, vermini, vomui I came, I got ratted, I threw up pgpPk8KFTpIWc.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Saturday 02 January 2016 15:06:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > "half as big again" means "50% larger than". That is, take the original measure, add one-half of it again and you have 1.5 x the original. > i.e. calculate 50% and add it, making the total 150%. > It's an English idiom, so don;t try

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 11:08:32 I wrote: > > On Saturday 02 January 2016 12:45:09 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I meant the size of the file. > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. Efficiency is not everything, readability is often more important.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Sunday 03 January 2016 14:49:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:44:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I meant the size of the file. > > > > And now I want to add that using 1.5 x the space to represent far less > > information is a clear indicator of inefficiency. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. > > > > I don't quite get that. > > ?? Both images are the same size. The usable content area in the qt5 screenshot is far from just half. Maybe the word

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On 02/01/2016 13:45, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:23:28PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > you see here. And the qt5 screen shot is half as big again as the qt4. >>> >>> I don't quite get that. >> >> ?? > > Both images are the same size. The usable content area in

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Friday 01 January 2016 11:33:32 lee wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can see how much less compact the qt5

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other in qt5. You can > see how much less compact the qt5 version is, > [...] > you see here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thursday 31 December 2015 12:34:26 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 11:19:28AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen > > shots of KMail: one in the standard qt4 KDE environment and the other > > in qt5. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the desktop/plasma > profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > I don't. > > I won't list all my objections here, but I have attached two screen shots of > KMail:

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On Thursday 31 December 2015 13:34:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 31/12/2015 13:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've built a separate system in spare partitions, using the > > desktop/plasma profile and the kde overlay, to see how I like it. > > > > I don't. > > > > I won't list

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

On 31/12/2015 15:37, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I have not found a Qt5 theme that looks Qt4-esque, but it's totally >> > possible to do it. >> > >> > I think in your case, you should go back to Qt4 until a quality theme is >> > available for Qt5 that you like. Do keep in mind that Qt4 is already a

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5

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Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5

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