Hi, On Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2020, 21:38:16 CEST Alec Ari via Emc-developers wrote: > X.org was old, so Wayland was invented. Sysvinit was old so SystemD was > invented. If you don't like the GUI for LinuxCNC because it looks old, you > can make your interface look super pretty with qtpyvcp.
Even if this was meant sarcastic ... When I started with linuxcnc, I had only litte change requirements to gui (well, in my point of view). Not for being old, but for functional requirements. Anyway - I started with release, but I had to realize, that neither glade-, nor qt-designer-extensions from lc worked on my debian installation. Asking for help in forum, I was told, that the designers will work with rip- installation. RIP-installation? - wtf - I wanted to start with linuxcnc, not bring it to cementery What ever - when I understand the second meaning of rip, I thought: why should I use a release, when I have to recompile all the stuff by myself? So I changed to git-master (then) and started to use rip-installation. Qt- designer-extensions stil don't work on my debian box and gscreen uses old designer (which had to be installed from source) and old python ... One day I was fatigued from corrupting my debian and using extensions from lc that don't really work, so I started to create my own gui. Meanwhile I arranged myself for using non-debian stuff on my debian box and I'm fine with master. So I don't care any more for releases. Never wanted to become a developer for lc, but I had so strange errors, that nobody seemed to be interested in, that I had to jump in the mud. If other users have similar experiences, then a lot of precious developer time has been wasted on releases, that don't have much importance. I believe, that developer time spent on pushing things ahead makes more sense, than spending it on releases. cheers Reinhard _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
