@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-02 20:30 UTC
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk
I've seen it at work several times in my career.
Unlike the relative, I recognized that this was jargon and knew where to look the jargon up.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts
The setting actually is not actually developer oriented. It's aimed, like the "hide letters" setting, at people who know the tool and who can (or at least want to) get by without the visual aids.
It's even something that I've directly experienced. Change layout multiple times to get to the desired point in the layout loop, and the names of all of the layouts passed through take significant time to all, one by one, flash on screen and disappear.
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk 2026-02-02 20:42
@dessalines@mastodon.social Quick suggestion, based upon having to explain to a relative that this was computer programmer jargon and did not have any connection to any ordinary meaning of the word 'toast': Change 'show toast on layout switch' to something like 'display the layout names when switching layouts'. @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk #ThumbKey #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming #Android