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Grayjay Desktop App

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513 points pierrelf | 4 comments | 20 Dec 24 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bisby ◴[20 Dec 24 21:02 UTC] No.42474981[source]▶
Launching the Linux release and noticed in the logs:

Directories:User Directory: /home/bisby/Grayjay

And there is a directory there now. I absolutely hate having stuff automatically create anything in my home directory like this. Ideally, this should be following XDG directory guidelines on linux: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/

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koen31 ◴[20 Dec 24 21:37 UTC] No.42475304[source]▶
Grayjay dev here. If you want it to use your user directory like other apps, just remove the file called "Portable". Keep in mind that it just uses your working directory to write files otherwise.
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godDLL ◴[20 Dec 24 21:52 UTC] No.42475423[source]▶
That's a windows-ism, we don't like that kind of stuff. Not on any other OS we don't.
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freedomben ◴[20 Dec 24 22:15 UTC] No.42475609[source]▶
Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!

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Suppafly ◴[21 Dec 24 04:52 UTC] No.42477625[source]▶
>Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

I don't understand the weird tone policing that people are trying to do, there is literally nothing wrong with the parent's comment and pretending otherwise is weird.

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gtsop ◴[21 Dec 24 08:03 UTC] No.42478160[source]▶
I didn't see it as tone policing. From my point of view, I saw a very interesting application being shared and I hoped it would be good and prosperous so i can use it. When the first comment says "i hate that you do X" it is a bit discouraging towards a team of developers who have probably poured tons of free hours into making this. Words play with psychology, and it is my personal interest that these devs have good morale to make this app great, and that meand giving them feedback about obvious mistakes in a tone that does not hurt this morale. I hope that make sense
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1. virtualritz ◴[21 Dec 24 17:08 UTC] No.42480795[source]▶
This is a cultural problem.

What is considered impolite in the US or the UK is considered just being straightforward in e.g. Scandinavia.

I am German, we're kind of in the middle between someone from e.g. Finland and someone from e.g. or the UK or US with what we consider "ok" or rather crossing into rude territory.

A common exchange I witnessed in a meeting at work (Nokia):

Finnish developer: And if we follow this suggestion we will all look like idiots.

UK developer: I hear you.

Deciding which one is more impolite or impolite at all is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

You get my point.

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2. Suppafly ◴[22 Dec 24 07:15 UTC] No.42484863[source]▶
It's not even impolite in the US, the people tone policing are being very weird. It's perfectly normal to say "I hate x behavior".
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3. nozzlegear ◴[22 Dec 24 07:41 UTC] No.42484941[source]▶
It's not normal to see someone doing x behavior, initiate a conversation with them and say "I hate x behavior." They're not tone policing you when they tell you that you come off like an asshole when you do that.
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4. Suppafly ◴[22 Dec 24 08:03 UTC] No.42485023{3}[source]▶
That's not at all what's happening here so it's irrelevant.