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Title: I've begun implementing my design in KDE.
Text: This is a continuation of [this post](https://goatmatrix.net/c/UX/DKVbaGZaPK). Implementing the design accurately would require coding, but I'm not a coder. Instead I used KDE to implement whatever I can, because it's pretty customizable and supports the aesthetics I'm going for. Here are the features I've implemented.
# Single top panel
My design has a two-frame layout where each frame has its own icons. This isn't possible in KDE as kwin is a stacking WM. (I've tried tiling plugins but most didn't function and none of them split the screen into frames.) However, what is possible is to simply put everything in the top panel so that you don't need another one. So all the icons go into a single area, that's a compromise I'm willing to make.
KDE supports an icon-only task manager but after extensive testing I've veered away from that design for this reason: icons make sense if you make the task bar thicker, but then they distract too much. I have a widescreen monitor so there's plenty space for the labels next to the icons so you have the classic task bar style like in Windows XP. It makes sense: if you make the task bar thinner, you can balance it out by having the window buttons take width instead of depth. It's a nice aesthetic.
It also helps that KDE has the global menu so that I'm getting a bit more functionality out of the panel instead of just having blank space. This lead me to consider the placement of the items which was a bit of a puzzle. The menu just looks unnatural if it isn't placed on the top left corner like in macOS (so it also requires the whole panel to be at the top rather than the bottom). If the taskbar comes directly after it, then it frantically moves around to the left and right depending on whether or not the focused window provides a menu (and how many top-level entries the menu has). That's an example of what I call **spastic design**. I've tried putting the taskbar at the right as well but that likewise feels unnatural. So I've settled on putting it in the middle and it looks quite good there.
Before this, I've tested taskbar at the left and menu at the middle. But we're so used to 'file' appearing at a top left corner that it looks weird in the middle. Interestingly it's specifically file and edit which should appear somewhere near the left. The 'help' entry could appear on the right part of the panel so hypothetically you could have a menu split in two where most entries appear on the left but options and help appear on the right, but there is no software to do this.
I've also tested the taskbar at the left and the menu immediately to the right of it. This is doable but also not quite as pretty. Menu on the left and taskbar in the middle is really perfect.
# Aero aesthetics
If you go into settings -> appearance -> window decorations, there's a button "Get New Window Decorations". I've downloaded one called Windows11-Polarnight. Now the decorations and panel look like the Windows Aero design i.e. silvery.
Some more details about the look and feel. I also made it so that maximized windows don't have window decoration at the top, as per my design. There's a kwin script called Truely Maximized that does this and the feature's borrowed from GNOME. Unfortunately it isn't possible for windows that are only vertically maximized though.
Personally I like focus-follows-mouse but this clashes with a global menu because while your mouse is traveling to the menu, you focus another window and then the menu changes. So I have click-to-focus but the first click that a window receives won't raise it. Just like the default settings in macOS.
# Plus icon replaces the start menu
It's simple: I've put the application launcher to the right of the taskbar instead of the top left corner, and I've changed the icon to a plus icon. KDE lets you pick from a whole list of icons and I simply picked a plus icon from there. For maximum browser analogy you can have it open a horizontal launcher bar that takes the full width (like a navigation bar) but personally I like the regular start menu because it lets me easily launch applications with a few clicks.
# Browser-like key bindings
Alt+t launches the start menu (as if you're opening a new browser tab, but now a window instead).
Alt+w closes the focused window.
# Faux two-frame layout
Like I said, kwin is a stacking wm which doesn't support actually splitting the screen into frames, but there's a key binding for making a window occupy the left half of the screen and another one for making it occupy the right half, just like what was introduced in Windows 7 (in fact, I use the same key bindings for that). On top of that, windows snap to the edges of other windows while you're resizing one, so you can easily make one window occupy 2/3rds of the screen and another one the remaining 1/3rd.
Okay that's all. A screenshot will follow soon.
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Title: Auto-hide Youtube videos over 20 minutes
Text: Tired of 30-minute rambles that say in half an hour what could be said in five? This userscript automatically hides any YouTube video over 20 minutes so your feed stays tight, relevant, and high-signal.
Why the 20 minute mark? Because that is the exact point where to fit a video under 20 minutes careful planning a scripting is needed. This makes the content higher value in total, and indeed much higher value per second. Under 20 minutes the creator has to plan pacing. Over 20 minutes the creator has to exploit padding tricks. Remember, an entire television episode can fit in around 20 minutes. The limitation is planning not time. If it reaches over 20 minutes to share an opinion on a small and trivial thing = they didn't plan and their content is not worth your time.
Give the userscript a try and see if you spend less time on low value, long length videos.
```javascript
// ==UserScript==
// @name YouTube: Hide 20+ Minute Videos
// @version 1.0.0
// @description Auto-hides YouTube videos longer than 20 minutes. This reduces distraction from long winded clickbait, fixes pacing, and saves time.
// @match https://www.youtube.com/*
// @run-at document-start
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function(){
var LIMIT = 20*60;
var TIME_NODES = [
'ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer span',
'span.ytd-thumbnail-overlay-time-status-renderer',
'.badge-shape-wiz__text'
].join(',');
var CARD_NODES = [
'ytd-rich-item-renderer',
'ytd-video-renderer',
'ytd-compact-video-renderer',
'ytd-grid-video-renderer',
'ytd-playlist-video-renderer',
'ytd-playlist-panel-video-renderer'
].join(',');
function addStyle(){
if (document.getElementById('yt-hide-long-style')) return;
var s = document.createElement('style');
s.id = 'yt-hide-long-style';
s.textContent = '.yt-hide-long{display:none!important}';
document.documentElement.appendChild(s);
}
function parseSeconds(txt){
if (!txt || txt.indexOf(':')<0) return 0;
txt = txt.trim().replace(/[^\d:]/g,'');
var parts = txt.split(':');
var sec = 0;
for (var i=0;i<parts.length;i++) sec = sec*60 + (parseInt(parts[i],10)||0);
return sec;
}
function scan(root){
var els = root.querySelectorAll(TIME_NODES);
for (var i=0;i<els.length;i++){
var t = (els[i].textContent||'').trim();
if (t.indexOf(':')<0) continue;
var s = parseSeconds(t);
if (s >= LIMIT){
var card = els[i].closest(CARD_NODES);
if (card) card.classList.add('yt-hide-long');
}
}
}
function start(){
if (!document.body) return setTimeout(start,50);
addStyle();
scan(document);
var mo = new MutationObserver(function(muts){
for (var i=0;i<muts.length;i++){
var a = muts[i].addedNodes;
for (var j=0;j<a.length;j++){
var n = a[j];
if (n && n.nodeType===1) scan(n);
}
}
});
mo.observe(document.body,{subtree:true,childList:true});
}
start();
})();
```
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Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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