On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, hildebrand victor <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear Mr Sisodiya > > Thats exactly is one problem for newbies (and not for me and you). Why > can't > > Linux community make a unified base system and on top of that we can > create > > package. > There is a unified base system. Linux is what it is due to different > approaches tried by all. > If 100 people work on a thing, it is likely that different types will > come up. It is plain human nature. > The real problem is only about usability and being straight forward. > Many distributions have done it. The real need is that usability and > ergonomics should be built into the softwares. This is not happening > because of many reasons. The major reason is that:- > (a) developers think in a particular way which is incompatible with > what normal user thinks. Many developers are writing code for > themselves to address a need. Its not always about world good. > (b) There are not enough people who'd write a patch and get it updated > for usability. > (c) Wishlist bugs are often not addressed (if they get filed. many > inconvenienced will not file a bug at all. The developer is of course > doing it the way he wants and is comfortable with). since the > developer's time is not enough to take care of the critical bugs > itself in many cases. > (d) There are not enough volunteers for the technical and > non-technical tasks. This also means number of work hours available. > It would have been a good idea to have usability teams for the major > desktop environments atleast which guide individual softwares. > > I have not worked on windows but how come windows software do not > > include dependencies.. > They do have dependencies. Its just that most developers will try to > develop their own libraries which they use or refer to hard coded > libraries which are conveniently in the respective installed folders. > So at the time of installation they put all the stuff they need > (usually unless a third party library is used as mentioned by Anoop). > Thats not the case here for obvious reasons. > > Once distros become more mature and softwares have more people looking > into it things can improve. Perhaps its time that a core international > group were to be formed which would look into these things > specifically. Clearly a distro can only do so much since it is just > packaging the softwares. They don't have a really big say in what the > software should be doing. Volunteers must come up for the same. > Hope this puts things in the right perspective. > Best Regards > Hildebrand > > Thanks for your writeup... -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
