On 07/10/2016 09:55 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I don't follow how it is "same concern": As I understand the blog post, > the very purpose of X-Apps is to be desktop-agnostic. Do you consider > pluma well suited as a desktop-agnostic editor? It currently links > against libmate-desktop-2-17 and mate-desktop-common which seems not > agnostic to me.
I didn't claim that Pluma is desktop-agnostic, I just said it runs just fine on any of the desktops that Debian offers. And I'm not sure how any of the X apps are supposed to be truly desktop- agnostic when they are using a particular toolkit like GTK or Qt. Unless they have completely rewritten Pluma from scratch - which I doubt because there wouldn't be a point of forking things - their version of Pluma will still be linking against GTK3 (hopefully not GTK2) which means it won't bring any huge improvements when running under any non-GTK desktops. Given the history of Linux Mint with their weird view on security (Linux Mint is the very definition of a FrankenDebian [1]) where they withhold important security updates because their weird mixture of packages would otherwise break too often or their hijacking of package names (mdm, for example), I don't really trust them to come up with a clean design for desktop agnostic applications. Heck, the first thing they wanted to do was naming their forked version of Pluma "xedit". Adrian > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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