Re: On package description quality
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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