Quoting Matthew Paul Thomas ([email protected]): > The concession for Java and Wine is because, unlike Linux application > developers, Java and Windows application developers can't reasonably be > expected to know or care about Ubuntu at all.
I'm sorry, I just don't understand this theme in this thread. The one about Linux application developers should be gearing their apps toward Ubuntu I don't think it's reasonable - at least not with some of the items on the original list. It's one thing for Gnome to do so, because their mission is different. For a distro, I think it's self-defeating. If I were out there coding some app, and someone came to me and said "your application isn't going to be in opensuse unless you drop support for appindicators and use (some other thing) instead", I'd laugh at them. This is open source. I code it for myself first, and share it with you. If you provide a generic API which will let my app do both, I may or may not decide to use it (probably not - time is scarce). But to just say I need to use your own API would be unfathomably presumptuous. Mind you I don't care to argue here. I'm just saying I'm worried about the fact that everyone seems behind this, and that this attitude will be detrimental to Ubuntu's standing in the community. Really detrimental. -serge -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
