There's a difference between creating a model to allow reusable components, and a fundamental design principle. Bonobo is a step in the right direction, but it ends up allowing cooperation between the monoliths, not creating a framework of one-function apps.
If you want small apps that do one thing, you really should be using KDE. Gnome apps tend to be big monolithic things far more often, whereas with KParts, KDE is entirely made of small one-function apps that embed eachother.
Flicker? LCDs may have ghosting from not updating fast enough, but that's the exact opposite of flicker: the image is TOO stable. I've never seen flicker on an LCD. CRTs, on the other hand, always have some amount of flicker, especially when any sort of electronic device is operating nearby -- my CRT got horrible banding in one of my dorm rooms running at anything other than 60 Hz. My LCD has never had that problem.
My LCD may not be as good for movies or games, but it is SO much easier on the eyes for hours of use. My red-eyed despair after all-night computer sessions went away once I got an LCD.
but I still use Dreamweaver MX 2004, which doesn't have an Open Source WYSIWYG counterpart as far as I've been able to find,
Quanta claims parity with Dreamweaver.
It's part of KDE, so you'd need to switch to linux to use it -- of course, you can always use knoppix to try it out without doing anything to your computer, and see if it meets your needs.
From what I understand, the next release of Quanta is supposed to be a big leap forward, the php debugger is getting a lot of praise.
Why do all sorts of instructions and manuals instruct people to use this hairy command, instead of just
tar xzf gaim-0.81.tar.gz
??
An insistence on making the command line look scarier than it is? Does it make them feel more geekly?
Young nobody character suddenly injected into interstellar war, is only hope of good guys, single-handedly ends unstoppable bad guy offensive with mystical powers. Space fantasy that speaks to adolescent wish fulfillment (I don't belong here.)
AppDirs can be distributed on CD-ROM and retain the same property of "just drag this wherever and run it."
Anyway, people need to get software somehow; it can't just magically appear on their computers. That's not anything specific to zero-install or any other package management solution, so your objection doesn't seem very relevant.
1. Easy installation of any Linux software. Don't give me RPM-hell, dependency hell, command-line compiling, proprietary click-n-run depositories, or any other excuses. Only the Mac does it right: you drag the icon to your Applications folder. Voilà. The first distro to accomplish this will be king.
Dude, ever clicked the history link? You can find exactly when a change occured, who made it, and what reason they provided. In other words, everything you're asking for.
If you have anything but the latest hardware Gentoo is likely to take a week to install. It took me two days on my fancy Athlon 64, and I know of people on old hardware (386's or something) taking weeks.
Why would you want video or audio in an im client?
Programs should do one thing and do it well. There are MUCH better video and audio conferencing solutions available in OSS than could ever be built into an IM client.
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How do you stop a loose worldwide framework of developers from coding?
There's a difference between creating a model to allow reusable components, and a fundamental design principle. Bonobo is a step in the right direction, but it ends up allowing cooperation between the monoliths, not creating a framework of one-function apps.
If you want small apps that do one thing, you really should be using KDE. Gnome apps tend to be big monolithic things far more often, whereas with KParts, KDE is entirely made of small one-function apps that embed eachother.
My LCD may not be as good for movies or games, but it is SO much easier on the eyes for hours of use. My red-eyed despair after all-night computer sessions went away once I got an LCD.
Quanta claims parity with Dreamweaver.
It's part of KDE, so you'd need to switch to linux to use it -- of course, you can always use knoppix to try it out without doing anything to your computer, and see if it meets your needs.
From what I understand, the next release of Quanta is supposed to be a big leap forward, the php debugger is getting a lot of praise.
http://quanta.sourceforge.net/main2.php?snapfile=s nap04
They're also going to update their embarassingly ugly website, apparently.
Why do all sorts of instructions and manuals instruct people to use this hairy command, instead of just
tar xzf gaim-0.81.tar.gz
??
An insistence on making the command line look scarier than it is? Does it make them feel more geekly?
I've been using GAIM primarily for MSN communication for over 2 years. I can recall a whole 2 days out of those 2 years that the MSN wasn't working.
I wouldn't put too much stock in Canadian Arrow. The first picture on their home page apparently shows a giant soda cup drowning in the ocean.
Turning off Java and Javascript renders the links harmless.
And a great movie.
...in case you didn't notice.
Anyway, people need to get software somehow; it can't just magically appear on their computers. That's not anything specific to zero-install or any other package management solution, so your objection doesn't seem very relevant.
Zero-install does exactly that. http://zero-install.sf.net/
Dude, ever clicked the history link? You can find exactly when a change occured, who made it, and what reason they provided. In other words, everything you're asking for.
Oh, c'mon, I'm a mandrake booster myself but that was funny.
In many romance-language countries the analogue of "billion" has the old british sense of million million, with "milliard" being thousand million.
If you have anything but the latest hardware Gentoo is likely to take a week to install. It took me two days on my fancy Athlon 64, and I know of people on old hardware (386's or something) taking weeks.
Just use urpmi. Once you've setup your servers at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ it's a great solution, both the commandline version and the GUI tools.
No. 1 Billion bytes is 1 Gigabyte. 1 Billion bytes is ~0.931322574615478515625 Gibibytes (assuming your math was right, I'm too lazy to check. ;-)
see: http://newegg.com/
There are patches for new MSN support, which may or may not have worked their way into the main package (it's been a while since I used centericq.)
Programs should do one thing and do it well. There are MUCH better video and audio conferencing solutions available in OSS than could ever be built into an IM client.
Thanks for the clarification.
It's in there (the executable is called mbas) but it's not complete yet.
That yoper.