On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:13:20 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Just out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions regarding > this ITP: > > * How is this superior to notify-send "Today's Fortune" "$(fortune)" ?
It actually is not. It just has a system tray icon :) > * Why a big C++ app for something that can be accomplished with a > single line of shell? (Which is also easier to tweak, if I want more > choice than fortune -s and fortune -s -a) This was started as a "learning project", I wanted to learn some C++ code. But, I thought that someone not very familiar with shell, or someone who prefers graphical UI might find this and maybe even use it, so I released it under a free license. And for a C++ I don't know if this actually is that big. > Furthermore, there are a couple of shortcomings I see: > > * It does not respect XDG_HOME at all, the default config file is > hardcoded to $HOME/.config/fortuner/fortuner.conf > > * The application is completely untranslatable (then again, fortune > itself isn't translated either, but that has less messages of its > own, too). These shortcomings will need to be fixed (probably you meant XDG_CONFIG_HOME). > But, in the end, my main issue is that it really is not much more > than a ~20 line shell script, except it is in C++. So instead of > packaging this, I would suggest writing a shell script instead, and > putting that in fortune-mod (along with a Suggests: on libnotify-bin). This could be an option. I hadn't really considered that. Thank you for your reply and criticism. Regards Juhani Numminen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAA-+ft0qh+M=fctrwrb-julcux2l9hui-oftpxuo4hh-2bm...@mail.gmail.com
