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[Ari Haviv]

On 1/7/07, Niklas Nisbeth <niklas at nisbeth.dk> wrote:
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> Mm, I see what you mean... but generally Tracker add-ons should not
> require any configuration, and only rarely have any sort of GUI, they
> should just do a simple obvious task to some files. I can see how for
> Firefox add-ons it might be different, but for Tracker add-ons I don't
> think it's an issue.


Even if they don't have their own GUI...my point is that they don't
integrate with our GUI. Functionality is placed ad hoc, dumped in the addons
menu. You have to remember what part of total functionality is built in and
what is add on.

As for linux being a mess, it's all about the lack of integration. For
example, you pointed out that unix doesn't have the trash concept (we don't
either through the command line because it's also taken from unix). It
doesn't matter if all the unix DE's have it..they have nothing to do with
rest of the OS.

"you can have your pointy clicky icons but no way are you going to touch our
terminal!" And things will never change

The linux user will say his system is less bloated than ours because he
doesn't need a fancy GUI. He can get by with just a terminal that he can run
off a VT100. OK but for those who do want a nice UI, they will find the unix
solution to be much more bloated with kde, gnome and regular x apps all
trying to work together.

That's really the fundamental problem and can't be solved simply by
replacing X windows with "Y". And if someone comes up with Y, you'll have
desktops with KDE apps, gnome apps, regular x apps and now Y apps because
there is nobody who can say "ok let's all switch together"


> >From my own experience Linux is not necessarily a mess (except for X,
> of course, X is a horrible), if you don't count the package management
> problems which BSDs don't tend to have. OpenBSD is certainly not a
> mess, it's actually very pleasant - cos the ports tree (software that's
> not part of the base distribution) only gets updated when you update
> your system with the basic libraries, there's no dependency hell (and
> cos software gets installed with sane defaults)...
> TBH most of the problems with Tux-on-the-Desktop stem from the fact
> that quite a lot of the apps out there simply aren't very good.
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