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Serg

12:00 AM

:p

me be going to class, play with raspberries and pics

Zacharee1

darn

Seth

Zacharee1

@Seth ?

dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/767756/…

@Seth oh is it that they have access to the password when they shouldn't?

Seth

@Zacharee1 umm. yes!!!

Zacharee1

lol

Apparently I was in Yukon time for a minute

Now, is that Mike Bell the football player, the screenwriter, the wrestler, the baseball player, the actor, the Irish politician, the mayor, one of many diplomats, the artist, the social theorist, or one of these people?

:p

Seth

12:41 AM

@Mateo what do you think of the new scope design stuff? docs.google.com/presentation/d/…

TheXed

Why did the icons become supersized over night?

on my desktop?

Zacharee1

What icons?

TheXed

Zacharee1

Click your desktop, hold ctrl and scroll down

Mateo

@Seth slide 6 looks awesome

Zacharee1

12:45 AM

What DE is that?

TheXed

can't scroll laptop...

Zacharee1

Two fingers on the trackpad

TheXed

Budgie...

Zacharee1

Ah

Or just pinch inwards with two fingers

TheXed

it doesn't appear to be working

Zacharee1

12:47 AM

Hmm

Ctrl + - maybe?

gonna reboot into Ubutu quickly

TheXed

Nope

Seth

@TheXed if you click on an icon is "restore icon's original size" an option?

Zacharee1

Does Budgie use Nautilus? askubuntu.com/questions/83099/how-to-change-desktop-icon-size/…

@Seth but that would have to be done for every icon

TheXed

I click resize icon, and it gives me the grabbers

and lets me somewhat make them smaller

Mateo

@seth like the filter widget idea too

TheXed

12:50 AM

but not as small as they should be.

Zacharee1

@TheXed look at the link I posted

TheXed

@Zacharee1 looking right now

Zacharee1

@TheXed would you call Budgie lightweight?

Something that might not take much battery?

Nathan Osman

Hello.

TheXed

I would say it is lightweight, but my computer is fairly beefy so wouldn't say it is a fair opinion.

Zacharee1

12:53 AM

@TheXed hmm. Well my computer would be able to handle it. I'm just concerned about battery life. Guess it can't be worse than GNOME though :p

although there is KDE....

darn, using lolcat after apt-get install makes prompts invisible

Nathan Osman

LXDE is about as lightweight as it gets.

Seth

@NathanOsman ~~It's me.~~ Hi.

user139252

@Zacharee1 you're having too much fun with that

Zacharee1

@Seth keep it alive

Seth

I was actually going to install Kubuntu on my 3rd partition and try it again.

Zacharee1

12:54 AM

@TheBrownOne I kind of want to make it so that it's autmoatically added after every command :p

Seth

I think last time I used it was 11.10?

Long time ago.

TheXed

How do I find my battery stats?

Zacharee1

@Seth It's nice. Plasma 5 is blindingly bright and flat, but THEM FEATURES

TheXed

Nevemrind just found it

Zacharee1

Gonna relog into Budgie to try it out

Seth

12:55 AM

@Zacharee1 btw what was the phone site you suggested for getting used phones again?

Zacharee1

Oh my God, it is FAST

TheXed

24 hours since I have had my computer plugged in...on and off use...

Zacharee1

@Seth good question. Swappa maybe?

TheXed

if that tells you anything...

Zacharee1

What's your computer?

TheXed

12:56 AM

Lenovo t420 Core i5 version

@Zacharee1 Like I said I don't know if is fast or not as everything seems to perform really well on this laptop...

Zacharee1

It logged me in in about 2 seconds I'd say

According to CNET, your battery life should be up to 9 seconds

Nathan Osman

@Seth Technically, you should say "It's I."

Zacharee1

cnet.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-t420/specs

@NathanOsman tell that to Adele

She seems pretty nice. Maybe she'll rewrite the song for you :p

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 ~~Do you have her contact info?~~ (Didn't see the last thing you posted :P)

TheXed

lol 9 seconds?

Zacharee1

12:59 AM

@TheXed yep

@NathanOsman :)

TheXed

After 24 hours of sporadic use?

Zacharee1

Seems about right then

Mateo

@seth also this is the state of the today scope on the tablet right now:

Zacharee1

I like Budgie so far

Mateo

Zacharee1

1:00 AM

it has the feel of GNOME 3.x, but the panel stuff that MATE/2.x has

And a search in the menu, which is what I was missing in MATE

@Mateo is that your scope?

Mateo

Nope

that is the main scope

Zacharee1

why the screenshot?

?

Mateo

Seth asked about it

Nathan Osman

@Seth this is genius.

Mateo

the new design mockup they put up at uos

Zacharee1

1:01 AM

ah

TheXed

Yeah I like it...

Took a little getting use to...

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman man, that is old :p

@TheXed yeah

TheXed

I like the amount of customization you can easily do...

if you click the power button and click the gear icon

there are tons of changes you can make

Zacharee1

But it's a very nice combination of the convenience of GNOME combined with the flexibility of MATE

I kind of wish the icons had their own menus, but it's new and that could come soon enough

TheXed

One thing I don't like and maybe it is because I haven't found the keyboard shortcut is app switching

Zacharee1

1:03 AM

uh oh

no alt tab?

wait, no it's there

TheXed

There is...

Zacharee1

just no interface

TheXed

but it just cycles through your open apps

Zacharee1

yeah

what do you mean by app switching then?

TheXed

the ability to choose which apps you want to work from easily...

so like in windows you have the task bar...

unity you have the unity launcher...

Zacharee1

1:05 AM

oh

so no open app indicator thingy

Seth

@NathanOsman ikr!

TheXed

it would even be better if you hit alt-tab and you where presented with a list or some icons to select from...

Seth

@Zacharee1 nope.. Already know about that one. Hm

@Mateo kinda.. spacious?

Zacharee1

@TheXed You can add an applet for shortcut icons and open apps

Seth

@Zacharee1 aha, techzilla.com

Zacharee1

1:06 AM

ahh

Seth

@NathanOsman tell that to Adele :P

Zacharee1

@TheXed it's called Icon App List

Seth

oh lol, I see Zach already said that :P

Zacharee1

@Seth copycat! :p

Mateo

so this will be a welcome improvment:

TheXed

1:06 AM

I don't see it

Nathan Osman

@Seth We've been through this already...

Seth

@Zacharee1 I thought of it perfectly organically :P

@NathanOsman Have we? :P

Mateo

Zacharee1

@Seth speech is not carbon-based tsk

Nathan Osman

We breathe out carbon dioxide...

So speech is kinda sorta... carbon-based?

Zacharee1

1:07 AM

@TheXed Notification area>>Settings gear in top righ>>Panels>>+ button>>Icon App List?

@NathanOsman written speech?

maybe?

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Pencil leads...

TheXed

Oh icon task list

Seth

dat moment when you start playing music and realize your headphones aren't plugged in..

Zacharee1

oh maybe

@NathanOsman here?

@Seth oops

Nathan Osman

@Seth Never mind what you realize. It's what everyone else realizes... :D

Seth

1:08 AM

@NathanOsman LOL

Zacharee1

@Seth:

> You are on the bus when you suddenly realize ... you need to fart.

The music is really loud, so you time your farts with the beat. After
a couple of songs, you start to feel better as you approach your stop.

As you are leaving the bus, people are really staring you down, and
that's when you remember: you've been listening to your ipod.

TheXed

Well it works but it kinda shatters the DE...

Zacharee1

@TheXed I put it in the center and the clock next to the Menu button

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 Pencil leads... graphite.

TheXed

@Seth it is even worse when you are watching pron...

Zacharee1

1:09 AM

@NathanOsman I mean, written text as in typed with your plastic keyboard, being displayed on a bunch of plastic pieces of light :p

@TheXed someone had to say it

Nathan Osman

@Zacharee1 I think the goalposts were moved somewhere along the line...

Zacharee1

@NathanOsman Well, it's not my fault you can't read my mind and figure out what I mean to say

Mateo

well we could all say music but think something else just fine

TheXed

@Zacharee1 yeah someone had tooo...

Nathan Osman

We all know who's thinking Adele...

Glares at @Zacharee1 and @Seth...

Zacharee1

1:11 AM

@NathanOsman wat

TheXed

Who is Adele anyways?

Seth

now I'm confused. What are we talking about?

Zacharee1

@TheXed a very very very very very famous singer

@Seth ask @NathanOsman

TheXed

Oh...I don't like famous singers...

I like indie artist...

Nathan Osman

Also a coworker, in my case.

TheXed

1:12 AM

up and comers....

Seth

@NathanOsman btw, do you have access to the SO docs beta?

@NathanOsman awkward

TheXed

You know the ones that still make music and haven't been defiled by the industry yet...

Nathan Osman

@TheXed Do you like bands that have been around for a while but they aren't as popular as they should be?

Zacharee1

uh oh

Seth

@TheXed that'd be adele..

Nathan Osman

1:13 AM

@Seth I do, yes.

Zacharee1

Budgie seems to have no HUDs at all

TheXed

@NathanOsman yeah depends on the band I suppose...

Seth

@NathanOsman Cool. How's it coming?

TheXed

@Zacharee1 yeah it is very HUD free, but the app switcher was one that I was certainly missing...

Nathan Osman

@TheXed Give this a shot: youtube.com/watch?v=RTVagzCDJMw

@Seth It's interesting. It has some issues still.

I'll see if I can grab a screenshot so you can get an idea.

Zacharee1

1:14 AM

hmm. It seems to be no better on my battery

TheXed

Lol, I feel like I heard this song in a video game before...

Nathan Osman

Really, which one?

Zacharee1

@TheXed oh, there's also a task list

So a window switcher

Seth

I know it's years old now, but I just found out about Alexi Murdoch.

Zacharee1

who?

Seth

1:17 AM

Alexi Murdoch - All My Days

►

Zacharee1

Why is it so hard to take the extra 0.3 seconds to type out "you" instead: askubuntu.com/questions/767768/…

@Seth ah

Nathan Osman

^--- example

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