On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 18:52 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 07:28 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > > > > > The most serious issue is, that some professional FLOSS apps were > > > written for GNOME 2, with GNOME 3 we fall back to an amateur OS > > > regarding to some apps. > > > > > > - Ralf > > > > > > > OK, I'm a n00b, so I don't always understand how things work. But that > > sounds backward to me.... why would one write "professional" software that > > depended on a particular version of a particular DE or WM? Wouldn't it be > > smarter (more reasonable) to write the DE or WM around the needs of the > > software or at least the kernel? > > > > Keith > > > Some apps might be part of the DE, but I refer to apps that base on some > runtime libraries, perhaps it's a GTK issue, but IIUC GTK depends to > GNOME and Qt depends to KDE. You can run those GNOME apss on KDE and KDE > apps on GNOME, but when GNOME 3 replaces GNOME 2 some libs are missing > or incompatible. > > More precise it might be an issue to basic libraries. But I'm not a > Linux coder, somebody else might correct this half-truth.
PS: Frontend vs backend ;) Not the whole software became unusable, but the GUIs. Note that FLOSS ships with several issues, just go back a few years ago, Jörg Schilling's CD stuff became an issue just regarding to different points of vies. Currently you can't use NVIDIA's proprietary 3D support legally regarding to a stupid GPL interpretation, if you use an important real-time patch. Well-meant easily can become a disadvantage. Linux isn't a company with a boss, but a libre community. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321208124.6618.11.camel@debian
