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  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updatesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, 5 graphics programs isn’t “support”. You need support from the millon mobile apps, web sites and image and web libraries. A format that you can only use by yourself or with a handful professionals is useless in practice.

    i gave those because they’re the most pertinent programmes for people dealing with creating & editing images. there are mobile (or at least android) libraries; and web is the issue i’m talking about - it’s hampered by chromium. there are more here if you’re interested.

    and i’d say that’s not bad for a format that’s only a few years old

    Ed: look at the list of formats supported by XnView

    i don’t know what this is supposed to mean. xnview supports jxl

    There’s been hundreds of new image formats in the last ~20 years, and none has gotten anywhere.

    because png is good. i’m not defending gif or jpeg, they suck. but png is simple, fast to decode, and open by design. there have been better formats, but not paradigm shiftingly better. it may not be the best as an image format, but it is good

    Even PNG needed a decade for some things to support it properly, and that one really had a brand new massive use case.

    yeah that’s my point, jxl has been adopted faster than png or webp (it was only officially standardised in 2022!)

    People use gif to make videos for crying out loud, and bitch about webp all the time, that’s how massive the pushback against new formats is.

    i really don’t think many people use gif. most people use gifv or similar (usually webm) without realising it. apart from its very specific use case, gif sucks; so most software automatically converts to something else

    Do you really think jpegxl would get anywhere by itself? No, it would be the same as with jpeg2000 and tons of other formats - first supported by a handful of programs, but not used by anyone else and then forgotten.

    jpeg2k had issues other than a lack of support - jxl has deliberately avoided those pitfalls

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updatesEnglish
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    1 year ago

    jpegxl actually has pretty good support - affinity, photoshop, gimp, krita, etc. all support it fine

    it’s only chrome/electron that’s holding it back (even firefox supported it until chrome dropped support). i don’t think it’s lazyness

    i have no love for gif (hence i use apng), but all the other alternatives are either videos so show controls by default, not widely supported, or webp. i realise webp is objectively the better format for most things, but i still argue it’s existence is a net negative effect

    webp may be open (although actually i’d argue it isn’t, the licences for the decoder and the format itself are both very woolly), but as it’s actively contributing to enshittification by holding back truly open formats i’d say that doesn’t really matter

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.ml•GNOME 45's Nautilus File Manager Gets a Modern Full-Height Sidebar LayoutEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had to look up Fitts’s law, and I’m not sure I get it. Could you explain what you mean?

    basically; the speed that it takes to click a button is dependant on the size of the button and the distance from the cursor. however, buttons at the edge of the screen have effectively infinite size, as they can’t be overshot. the most used actions should be placed there, as they are the easiest to click by muscle memory (particularly the corners, as they have infinite size in both dimensions)

    on windows, kde, cinnamon, etc.; by default the bottom left is start, the bottom right is show desktop (this one i can’t explain), and the top right is close maximised window. the top of the screen is also used for other window-related actions like minimise, restore, change csd tabs, etc.

    gnome flouts this by having most of the top of the screen doing nothing (most of it is completely empty) apart from rarely used actions like calendar and power. and the bottom right and left doing nothing[1]

    did i explain well?

    ETA: I kinda feel like mine was about KDE not being a fit for me personally, and yours was a slam on Gnome rather than a statement of personal preference.

    nah it was very much a personal thing: some people like having a minimal and clutter-free feature set; i like having as many features as possible, because then i find features i didn’t even know i liked.[2]

    as for the top bar: this one confuses me - it just seems objectively bad. but obviously it’s not as some people clearly like it. i haven’t had anyone actually explain to me why, though

    1. i mean they also ignore it in other ways, too ↩︎

    2. i didn’t know how useful a terminal embedded in the file manager would be until i started using dolphin, now i can’t do without it ↩︎