"My main 'grunt' about RunRev on Linux has nothing to do with RunRev at all: it is virtually impossible to install your own fonts in a place that RunRev will recognise them."
That too. Also virtual desktops don't work, revBrowser not available, revPrintField doesn't work, no player for Linux, lots of the functionality seems to be increasingly provided by add-ins from the group which work only on Windows or Mac. As for instance tRev. Which is understandable, and their choice, but in that case the core team needs to offer some way of getting to feature parity if not identity - like, for instance, Geany or Gedit plugins, or even Eclipse plugins. The problem is, if doing it at all, it should be done right. Otherwise you get the worst of all possible worlds. I'm not a professional Linux developer, but if I were, would have moved to (or never left) Python. Python has many different disadvantages, but using Python on Linux you are an equal citizen in a less desirable country, rather than being a second class citizen in a more desirable one. So the result of the present situation if continued is that Rev ends up with the amateurs, like us, because we are less demanding, we like the people and the environment, and are prepared to compensate for its lacks by writing shell scripts in antique languages. Like, I do my reporting in Awk, and the users put up with something that looks like it came out of 1995. The info is there, but its a bit antique, but its fine for us. It would not be if I were making a full time living from it. What Rev needs to do is get Linux up to full parity. Its the last 15% that needs doing. It can't make any sense to restrict the market to people like us, but that's the effect of what's happening. Till its done this, all other platforms have to go. The price of a few things well is refusing to do a lot badly. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Rev-on-kde-tp1013369p1017447.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
