The founder of the Open Graphics Project writes: "Good design and usability are very important. I haven't paid enough attention to the discussions between Linus and GNOME developers, so I can't address it directly. But what I can say is that a learning curve is not a bad thing. While it's good to think about the total novice, it's even more important to have consistent and logical mechanisms. This way, if someone has to learn something new to use the computer, they have to learn it only once. This is why I think it's good that Apple and Microsoft have UI development guides that encourage developers to make their apps act consistently with other apps in areas where their functionalities conceptually overlap. And this is where I start to get disappointed with GNU/X11/Linux systems."
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Member since:2006-10-08
"That beats the point of this article. You have to manually get the libraries/dependences/developmen files, and that's not easy to use, and a reason it lags behind."
You're right, of course. I didn't talk about how complicated it is and / or might get, I did talk about that it's possible nearly everywhere. It works fine for small programs, but if you get into "dependency hell", you're nearly lost. So you will have to be educated enough to know how to solve these programs and how to read Makefile. So this solution is mostly designed for experienced users that don't mind to get their hands dirty. It's no solution for Joe Q. Sixpack and Jane Foobar. :-)
Member since:2005-07-06
And how this that different from OS X or Windows or any other OS. If it want to run an open source app on windows and no one has made an installer I have to compile from source, same with OS X and every other OS.
At least Linux tries to make this annoying experience marginally less painful.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-10-02
That part is automatic done by package manager. Besides the one place thing is completely crap - how can it manage dependencies? Every apps on windows just end up having a copy of all libs they use.
Internal file structures for apps should be hidden from the user and managed by the system (and not the apps/setup). No user should copy/move/remove apps by himself, or even do any stupid click/interaction during installation/uninstallation.
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2006-02-25
That beats the point of this article. You have to manually get the libraries/dependences/developmen files, and that's not easy to use, and a reason it lags behind.