On Sun, Jun 08, 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset": > > The fact that software is bloated and sucks isn't a fact of nature and > > wasn't > > even always true. It can, and should be, fixed. There is absolutely no > > reason > > why a toolkit like GTK should bloat the software that uses it. If OpenMoku >.. > Right. Nowadays toolkits have all sorts of bloats. For instance, both > gtk and QT have support for this strange feature called bidirtionality > rendering, which most of the people in the world don't really use.
"Features" and "bloat" are not the same thing. All the 90s toolkits I mentioned also had a lot of features, and often even useless features, but somehow they managed to run on CPUs weaker than today's cellphones. RTL support is a feature, not bloat. When you run a KDE clock application and see 100 MB of memory use (or something similar - according to a question someone sent to this list a year ago), believe me, RTL is *not* the reason. We need to watch out - in the effort to emulate Windows, free software is slowly but surely acquiring all its flaws as well. We used to tell people "if you have an old machine too slow to run Windows, Linux will save you!". Is this still true??? Lucky that with free software I still have a choice, and can avoid using KDE and GNOME. But this is because I'm eccentric. Hardly anyone else I know uses Linux without relying on KDE or GNOME. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 5 Sivan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Unlike Microsoft, a restaurant would not http://nadav.harel.org.il |charge me for food with a bug! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
