> > Can you elaborate on your intended use case? The software is FOSS, so > it's hard to pinpoint a feature when everyone offers the same set of > features. > To be perfectly honest with you, the majority of these apps are just > chrome extensions. It often takes more effort to remove features than it > does to add them so you are unlikely to find a "popular" app that doesn't do > unicode and VOIP. > > I get and agree with everything you're saying here. I guess the best example is when I first started using Signal a few years ago, it was just a secure texting app.
Here's the best analogy I can draw that I think we're all familiar with. The Linux / Unix paradigm is simple and svelte tools that can be combined to due more complex tasks. Like having to use a monolithic app such as MS Word for simple text editing. It isn't about taking features out, it's about figuring out the point when that particular app is doing thing it was designed to the best it can and it's reliable, efficient, etc. Then build another app for those other features and make those apps interoperable. I know this is easy for me to say as someone who doesn't write software. But it was a big factor for me in moving away from and staying away from MS & Apple. But I still don't like to even use Libre Office when in most cases I don't need that bloated feature set to accomplish the majority of word processing tasks. I don't really even like using Desktop enviros. I do it mostly out of convenience but then you get stuck with the common app set and if you want to change apps it can sometimes be nightmare as another app might be entangled with another desktop enviro. I dunno if that makes any sense. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
