I would hate to have a 40px title bar doing nothing except wasting space on my screen. I've been using this layout for years, and I didn't even consider that anyone could have an issue with this until I read your statement.
I'm not saying that you are wrong to disregard it due to your personal preferences, but please consider that this might not be such a horrible design as you make it out to be. Also, you can be certain that you are not the only sane person left - I think it's just that most of them don't show up on boards and forums.
The parent post is overly strongly worded, but I agree with the meat of it: tabs should not be in the title bar of the window. It's worse usability for a space savings that really isn't relevant because it's so small.
Just because it is not doing anything at the moment doesn't mean it doesn't serve an important, necessary purpose. For a windowed application environment to be functional and usable, there needs to be an easy way to drag windows around the screen. When you start moving things into that space, it makes the system harder to use.
A once-simple action which required minimal thought now requires you to parse an arbitrarily populated area of the screen and find a tiny gap within a litany of buttons and controls and carefully drag that part of the window. If you make a slight mistake and click on a tab or button, the unwanted activation of that control (e.g. switching to a new tab) serves to needlessly penalize the user.
This is not just an issue with web browsers now, but seemingly everywhere. It's been a big issue in the macOS Finder for a while now.
At the very least, Firefox still gives me the option to show the native window title bar, which I very much appreciate. It's certainly not the sexiest part of the UI, given the native element clashes a bit with FF's controls, but at least it's usable! This is an issue that could be solved by giving people a choice via a simple toggle... Most often, the option isn't there.
I'm sorry people have downvoted my post here a bit, and I agree it was a bit strongly worded, but I won't apologize for venting some frustration at what I see as the perpetuation of user-hostile design choices like this.
I love chatterbox, it's my favourite. While the generation speed is quick, i wonder what performance optimization i could try on my 3090 to improve throughput.
It's not quite enough for realtime.
without wanting to sound overly sceptical, what exactly makes you think it performs so much better compared to claude and chatgpt?
Is there any concrete example that makes it really obvious?
I had no such success with it so far and i would really like to see the clear cut between the gemini and the others.
I was thinking that too. I am really not a professional developer though.
OFC it would be nice to just write python and everything would be 12x accelerated, but i don't see how there would not be any draw-backs that would interfere with what makes python so approachable.
I was under the impression that one could only do real-time stuff with analog tech in this day and age, but apparently people still use tape recorders and stuff.
That's just outside of everything I can imagine. I work in signal processing and everything around here is always immediately sampled and discretized.
I see, yeah, i am repairing a 16 channel tape machine right now. it's really nice.
For me it's about the recording and mixing process itself. I have diagnosed ADHD and i have a really hard time to focus on the production when i am working on my PC. I dont commit, i always tweak and i dont really care about the big view of the song because there is always some detail i can polish for the next 3 hours.
On a mixer and tape, i can turn down the lights and just sit there and listen and record. I dont care about the analog sound, i dont care about the inherent noise, i only care about the fact that i can sit down and actually be write music. I can basically do it all without even opening my eyes.
I'm not saying that you are wrong to disregard it due to your personal preferences, but please consider that this might not be such a horrible design as you make it out to be. Also, you can be certain that you are not the only sane person left - I think it's just that most of them don't show up on boards and forums.
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