| Re: My Site
Jul 27 2008 on content Minimalistic Joy |
And I'm happy to see that my efforts have proved useful to someone. Thanks for the link too. |
|  | | My Site
Jul 27 2008 on content Minimalistic Joy |
Ah, I see now. You have two pages up. Even stranger.
Well, carry on. |
| | | My Site
Jul 27 2008 on content Minimalistic Joy |
Uhm... is there a reason that you've put up a page in the gnome screenshot category but then simply linked to my site?
I don't mind, but this is kind of strange. At least put up a preview. :) |
| | | AWN
Mar 20 2008 on content dock icons for elegant brit |
I like Avant-Window-Navigator better than Cairo-dock. Luckily, it's actually possible to use these icons with AWN as well. |
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| | | Re: Re: Synaptic
Feb 27 2008 on content Gnome Debian Package Finder |
I don't mean to anger you, sir, but some issues:
1) You can run synaptic without admin privileges in order to search for packages. It pops up a warning telling you that you won't be able to change things, but you can still look.
2) Sure, I admit dpkg is command line, and there are people that don't like that.
3) aptitude is a graphical tool. Try aptitude -v. It has an ncurses interface that is actually rather nice and easy to use without having to read documentation.
4) Ubuntu's default package tool also closely mirrors your functionality, iirc.
5) People make a lot of different music players because they don't tend to agree on the layout or what the music player should or should not do. I agree that competition is good -- and I accept that this is still an early version of your program.
I see that you have put a lot of effort into it, and I too (as a programmer) would be hurt that someone doesn't really see how it's useful. I'm not telling you to stop your project and to forget about it -- rather the opposite.
The reason I originally went to see what it is that you offered is that I hoped it had features above those that other things have. For example, if you could incorporate searching for a .so or part of a package like dpkg -S does, that would be instantly useful. Neither synaptic or anything else I know of (except dpkg -S) does that.
Also, perhaps you could implement other value-added features. Perhaps you can think of a smart recommendation system that would figure out what the user likes and suggest to them new packages that they might find useful.
Perhaps it could easily display the repositories that you have access to.
Perhaps it could search based on author...
I don't know, I'm just throwing out some suggestions. I'm sure a lot of them are bad.
My point, is, though -- you're my brother in that we're both open source developers and I don't aim to wound your or hurt your project. I just humbly suggest that your project's abilities are entirely eclipsed by the commonly pre-installed Synaptic. So far, the only thing you have over it is a better, quicker interface. Perhaps you would consider adding more to your program in future releases that would make it better than Synaptic's search? |
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