On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:59 AM, John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll say that the impression that I have received as an outsider is that > > the people working on Sugar have not at all been interested in > > compatibility with normal linux software. > > It's more accurate to say that while they are somewhat interested in > that as an abstract idea, they are much more interested in making > their interface whizzier, which is fun, and in rewriting the most > obviously braindead parts of the Journal/Datastore, which staves off > programmer and end-user insanity. (I'm paraphrasing drastically, from > having watched a bit of their goal-setting for the next release from > afar.)
All this sarcasm only makes things even muddier. Please raise your concerns in a clearer way. > If someone came along with clean patches to make Sugar work better > with normal Linux/Unix software, I think they'd accept them. (Some > patches to Gnome, KDE, and other window managers are also going to be > needed, at least if Sugar apps want to show their current SVG icons; > no other window manager supports drawing SVG icons.) Yes. > If the community waited around til the two? three?-person Sugar team > got around to implementing these features itself, they might have to > wait til 2010 or so. Maybe not so long. But please send the patches anyway. [...] > That has been > patched, but just barely; the API still comes with terrible > assumptions like "of course the application will make a copy of every > file it touches". This is plain false. Where did you get that idea? Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
