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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: On package description quality
From:       Tom <tb.nospam () comcast ! net>
Date:       2003-10-05 15:10:53
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On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 05:03:54PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Tom <tb.nospam@comcast.net> a tapot? :
> 
> > I disagree.  GUI apps in Linux are so wildly disparate that knowing the 
> > basic architecture is pretty important for me to decide whether or not I 
> > want it.
> 
> What a normal user care about is the purpose and features of software,
> not the libraries (toolkit) used to build this software.
> 

This is true.  However, as Microsoft and Apple seem to believe, it's not 
a nutty idea to believe that people care about how fonts look, clipboard 
operations work, and what the keyboard shortcut for File|Save is.  Call 
me nutty for buying into this.

Whether or not an app is GTK1, GTK2, Tcl/Tk, or QT3 makes a big 
difference to this.  So yes, the library doesn't matter, but the core 
feature set is kinda relevant.  Maybe you could find another way to 
describe it.


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