I want to educate about this method of oppression in the hopes that people who are suffering similarly can find help, and that hopefully, if we all fight together, we can create a better future where computer users are not put in danger anymore.
Today, more than ever, computer users are threatened.
They are threatened to lose control of their desktop. They are under the threat of being opressed by the software they are supposed to trust. Software vendors all over the world are trying to wrest absolute control over your computer. And you, your computer's owner, are not invited.
But fear not, i will guide you and enable you to fight back against the tyrants.
Focus stealing
To understand what focus is, we first need to introduce the concept of focus. Focus is simply saying which window on the desktop and which control inside a window receives input. Focus stealing is when some program decides that instead of the window you were just working on, your inputs now go to another window. simply because the program wanted it. Isn't this treason, isn't this usurping of power?Focus stealing is omnipresent these days. On the windows platform, any program suddenly grabbing focus is even expected behavior, meaning that at no point you can expect your next keystroke to target the same window as your previous one.
Modal dialogs
Modal dialogs preventing the user to work on what he wants to work on. It is a form of focus stealing. It's even a worse form of focus stealing, because it forces you to interact with the modal window by blocking access to its parent window.forced marriage. that is what modal dialogs are like
for another analogy: imagine you're painting a picture of happy little trees. but as you try to use green, red comes up and says "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE GREEN UNTIL YOU FINISHED USING RED. AND I WILL DECIDE WHEN YOU'RE DONE USING RED" and then violently blocks you from using green. You are forced to give up your freedom of choice. you are forced to use onlz red until red decides it's done you have lost all control
Z-sorting of windows
Z-sorting refers to the order windows are stacked on each other on the desktop. Many people falsely belive that the currently focused window is always the topmost window. But this is nonsense. What if i have a large window behind a small window that i want to interact with, but still look at the small window while i interact with the lower, larger window.This is why z-sorting is independant from focus.
Inefficient use of screen space
I has long been established that the minimum amount of pixels required to In the past 20 years, the count of pixels available on our screen has increased more than tenfold.20 years ago, the average desktop resolution was 640 by 480
640*480= 307200
today, the average desktop resolution is 2556 bby 1440
2556*1440=3680640
3680640/307200=11.98125
yet, despite this tremendous increase, we are unable to fit more windows into our desktop to multitask more efficiently. why? because evil oligarchic corporations keep increasing the size of the GUI.
Complete hostile takeover of the hardware
When you buy a computer, regardless whether it's prebuilt or self-built, a desktop or a smartphone. you own it. it's your silicon, your copper, your plastic. yet microsoft reserves the right to turn your computer on or off at any time.The folly of the herd marching quickly towards the slaughterhouse
Yet, more and more people are openly embracing the loss of control over their desktop.
In this blog, i will gather examples of the aforementioned wrongdoing in a kind of hall of shame. I will reccommend alternatives and workarounds to deal with the evils described above. I do take requests. All we desktop users are together in this terrorist assault against our rights. Almost every large software vendor is guilty of one or more of the aforementioned transgressions. It is an uphill battle. But if we do not despair and remainn steadfast, we can win back our freedom
