On 16 December 2014 at 02:40, Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree, and I'm currently working on one (as are others obviously as > seen in this thread) within Gnome (although the base code is desktop > independent) > Thanks - I think the more people there are trying to address this, the more likely someone will hit on a working solution. Please do make as much of it as possible desktop independent, and if possible, avoid badging this as a way to install 'GNOME applications'. No-one's about to win the free desktop wars, and if we end up with separate application systems for GNOME, Unity, KDE, etc., none of them are going to get much traction with third party application creators. Mattias: > That is a problem with the distributions. Is it not > best if the distributions try to fix this? For the most part, distributions have shown very little interest or ability to fix this. Credit where credit is due, Ubuntu and Red Hat have at least thought about this problem, but even when distros do try to address it, application authors have to deal with different concepts and systems for each distro, which takes up time and energy they could better spend on improving their application. Thomas
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