Re:Typicall awful font rendering on Linux
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aMSN 0.95 Released
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· Score: 1
What a TROLL. Insightfull??! Let's see.
No, it doesn't "exemplify why Linux struggles" anything. It exemplifies why Tcl/Tk has bad fonts, which is not the same as "Linux sucks". Tcl is one thing, Linux is a whole another thing. Tcl/tk is very very distant from representing "Linux" in that area, as a matter of fact.
Then you compare Firefox with Amsn... pfff, comparing apples and stones. Three words: completely different toolkits.
Websites look just fine here, the problem is in your website, trust me. Look around more and you'll find the problem.
First, Java never turned into an open standard like C or C++. Initially, it looked like there were going to be dozens of independent implementations besides Sun's and Microsoft's, but they have all disappeared. The only way to run a compliant Java platform these days is with Sun's implementation or one of its derivatives (IBM, Oracle, Apple).
It is an open-standard. The reason why you don't see lots of compliant platforms is simply because there isn't much interest in developing a JVM and making a business out of it. Most companies are more interested in making money using Java, not developing it.
But there are a lot of open-source JVM's being written.
Second, Java is focused on niche markets; most of Java's real-world use seems to be in enterprise apps, a market segment that by itself is not enough to sustain a general purpose programming language (Java may well be the new Cobol).
Enterprise apps is a huge "segment". It's what most software business do today. But anyway, doesn't mean you can't use Java for whatever you want... see succesful projects, such as Azureus, or OpenOffice (which isn't totally written in Java, but uses Java).
Before this release, you couldn't add menus, only menu entries.
To do that, go to a menu, right click, and choose Entire Menu-> "Add a new item to this menu".
The reason why you couldn't add new menus is because most users simply don't do that. It's that simple. You and all others 'slashdoters' screaming "i don't use gnome because i can't edit the menu!' probably counts for 0.9% of Gnome's target audience.
Gnome's target is simple users, moms, dads, grandpas. I'll tell you, i've presented Linux to many many newbies, and if there's one thing i never got asked is "how do i customize the menu?" Most people don't waste time doing that.
It's not even streamed, it's downloaded (AFAIK). I can't understand what's the big deal with this podcasting stuff... since when downloading mp3s is big deal?
Re:Nice work... shame about those icons
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GNOME 2.12 Previewed
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Thank God you're not making Gnome icons.
I love Gnome icons, the way they are. They have a unique style, i just love it. And, i hate KDE childish/shiny icons. See, it's all a matter of point of view.
Eh? Playing ads because they enjoy it? No such thing... we all know all ads are paid for.
This is mostly an ethics issue, and as such sometimes you'll get a little confused. You just gotta think about it a little, about how much these radio stations fool their listeners. Music should be about entertainment, not consumism.
And nope, i don't think crediting it to Britney intrinsically says they're being payed to play Britney every hour. In the Perfect World, it would just mean they are buying the rights to play that music, because they love it; and they'd be buying it with the money they get from ads.
It would not be illegal *if* the radio stations would mention who is paying for the music being played. "And now 'Oops what a crap' by Britney Spears, courtesy of XYZ Records!'
But they don't do that, so it's illegal.
They don't do that because they want to create an illusion, fooling their listeners into thinking they're playing that music every hour because they actually think that's the new revelation, the new latest greatest band in the world.
The government's goal is not to convert people to Linux/Mac/OSS, or even to support that minority.
You mean that's the Australian government's goal.
The thing is, every action has a consequence, and the consequence of the simplistic thought "let's do it for Windows because they're majority" is that you're locking yourself exclusively to one vendor, you're helping it become a bigger monopoly, and those effects will reflect in the entire population (the net effect) that will use that software.
That's not, for example, the Brazilian government's goal. The e-tax software here already is cross-platform, and there's already a ruling that others tax-related software must all be ported to other platforms.
You only have time to get a single version of the client ready so which OS do you support first?
All of them, and no, it isn't that hard to make it cross-platform; and yes, i have done it in the real world.
Here in Brazil we have IRPF, which is our e-tax app (written in Java swing), which runs and has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac, even Solaris. So, if we can do, there's no reason to feel pitty for them.
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What a TROLL. Insightfull??! Let's see.
No, it doesn't "exemplify why Linux struggles" anything. It exemplifies why Tcl/Tk has bad fonts, which is not the same as "Linux sucks". Tcl is one thing, Linux is a whole another thing. Tcl/tk is very very distant from representing "Linux" in that area, as a matter of fact.
Then you compare Firefox with Amsn... pfff, comparing apples and stones. Three words: completely different toolkits.
Websites look just fine here, the problem is in your website, trust me. Look around more and you'll find the problem.
First, Java never turned into an open standard like C or C++. Initially, it looked like there were going to be dozens of independent implementations besides Sun's and Microsoft's, but they have all disappeared. The only way to run a compliant Java platform these days is with Sun's implementation or one of its derivatives (IBM, Oracle, Apple).
It is an open-standard. The reason why you don't see lots of compliant platforms is simply because there isn't much interest in developing a JVM and making a business out of it. Most companies are more interested in making money using Java, not developing it.
But there are a lot of open-source JVM's being written.
Second, Java is focused on niche markets; most of Java's real-world use seems to be in enterprise apps, a market segment that by itself is not enough to sustain a general purpose programming language (Java may well be the new Cobol).
Enterprise apps is a huge "segment". It's what most software business do today. But anyway, doesn't mean you can't use Java for whatever you want... see succesful projects, such as Azureus, or OpenOffice (which isn't totally written in Java, but uses Java).
Is Sun nervous because Blackdown has made their own JDK? I highly doubt it.
Blackdown didn't make their own JDK; they just ported Sun's code to platforms where it didn't run before - and, of course, with Sun's permission.
Before this release, you couldn't add menus, only menu entries.
To do that, go to a menu, right click, and choose Entire Menu-> "Add a new item to this menu".
The reason why you couldn't add new menus is because most users simply don't do that. It's that simple. You and all others 'slashdoters' screaming "i don't use gnome because i can't edit the menu!' probably counts for 0.9% of Gnome's target audience.
Gnome's target is simple users, moms, dads, grandpas. I'll tell you, i've presented Linux to many many newbies, and if there's one thing i never got asked is "how do i customize the menu?" Most people don't waste time doing that.
It's not even streamed, it's downloaded (AFAIK). I can't understand what's the big deal with this podcasting stuff... since when downloading mp3s is big deal?
Thank God you're not making Gnome icons.
I love Gnome icons, the way they are. They have a unique style, i just love it. And, i hate KDE childish/shiny icons. See, it's all a matter of point of view.
Eh? Playing ads because they enjoy it? No such thing... we all know all ads are paid for.
This is mostly an ethics issue, and as such sometimes you'll get a little confused. You just gotta think about it a little, about how much these radio stations fool their listeners. Music should be about entertainment, not consumism.
And nope, i don't think crediting it to Britney intrinsically says they're being payed to play Britney every hour. In the Perfect World, it would just mean they are buying the rights to play that music, because they love it; and they'd be buying it with the money they get from ads.
It would not be illegal *if* the radio stations would mention who is paying for the music being played. "And now 'Oops what a crap' by Britney Spears, courtesy of XYZ Records!'
But they don't do that, so it's illegal.
They don't do that because they want to create an illusion, fooling their listeners into thinking they're playing that music every hour because they actually think that's the new revelation, the new latest greatest band in the world.
The government's goal is not to convert people to Linux/Mac/OSS, or even to support that minority.
You mean that's the Australian government's goal.
The thing is, every action has a consequence, and the consequence of the simplistic thought "let's do it for Windows because they're majority" is that you're locking yourself exclusively to one vendor, you're helping it become a bigger monopoly, and those effects will reflect in the entire population (the net effect) that will use that software.
That's not, for example, the Brazilian government's goal. The e-tax software here already is cross-platform, and there's already a ruling that others tax-related software must all be ported to other platforms.
You only have time to get a single version of the client ready so which OS do you support first?
All of them, and no, it isn't that hard to make it cross-platform; and yes, i have done it in the real world.
Here in Brazil we have IRPF, which is our e-tax app (written in Java swing), which runs and has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac, even Solaris. So, if we can do, there's no reason to feel pitty for them.