> On 16 September 2010 13:29, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op maandag 06-09-2010 om 17:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tony
> >
> > Atkinson:
> >> 3) Link GUI & CLI operations using common syntax
> >>
> >> I'm in two minds about including this,
> >> as this is not a usual use-case for the majority of
On 16 September 2010 13:29, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op maandag 06-09-2010 om 17:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tony
> Atkinson:
>> 3) Link GUI & CLI operations using common syntax
>>
>> I'm in two minds about including this,
>> as this is not a usual use-case for the majority of people
>> but I'd lo
Op maandag 06-09-2010 om 17:05 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tony
Atkinson:
> 3) Link GUI & CLI operations using common syntax
>
> I'm in two minds about including this,
> as this is not a usual use-case for the majority of people
> but I'd love for all GUI applications to be invokable via the CLI
I'm a bit curious - why would it be more work for devs? Obviously
splitting the packages
would take a bit of work, but with smaller and more finely grained
packages if you were
installing a package from the network and there was less to download
and install then
wouldn't install and upgrade times *
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 22:58 +0100, sam tygier wrote:
> i suspect if the KDE libs were split more finely it would mean lots more
> smaller packages, longer install times, longer upgrade times and more work
> for devs. so it would be a compromise.
Would not an extendible Desktop environment framew
On 06/09/10 17:05, Tony Atkinson wrote:
> 1) Applications, and their dependence on desktop environment libraries
>
> Currently certain application rely on specific desktop environment
> libraries to operate.
>
> As examples,
> if you install kate on stock Ubuntu 10.04, you pull in 108 packages,
> t
An Open Letter to Ubuntu Developers
(apologies for the length)
First of all, I would like to thank all that participate in Free
Software.
I could write for days about how I appreciate individual upstream
projects and the work done by various distributions, but for brevity I'm
lumping all
