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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 days ago

Bring Back Idiomatic Design

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design

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I’m part of the desktop software generation. From Windows 95 to Windows 7, I grew using mostly-offline software on computers operated via mouse and keyboard, well before tablets and smartphones. Recently, I’ve been missing one particular part of that era: its consistency in design. I want to tell you about
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    in geany: Tools > Configuration Files is a submenu that just opens the text config files

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