Bug#686185:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:13:20 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, I would like to ask a few questions regarding
> this ITP:
>
> * How is this superior to notify-send "Today's Fortune" "$(fortune)" ?
It actually is not. It just has a system tray icon :)
> * Why a big C++ app for something that can be accomplished with a
> single line of shell? (Which is also easier to tweak, if I want more
> choice than fortune -s and fortune -s -a)
This was started as a "learning project", I wanted to learn some C++
code. But, I thought that someone not very familiar with shell, or
someone who prefers graphical UI might find this and maybe even use it,
so I released it under a free license.
And for a C++ I don't know if this actually is that big.
> Furthermore, there are a couple of shortcomings I see:
>
> * It does not respect XDG_HOME at all, the default config file is
> hardcoded to $HOME/.config/fortuner/fortuner.conf
>
> * The application is completely untranslatable (then again, fortune
> itself isn't translated either, but that has less messages of its
> own, too).
These shortcomings will need to be fixed (probably you meant
XDG_CONFIG_HOME).
> But, in the end, my main issue is that it really is not much more
> than a ~20 line shell script, except it is in C++. So instead of
> packaging this, I would suggest writing a shell script instead, and
> putting that in fortune-mod (along with a Suggests: on libnotify-bin).
This could be an option. I hadn't really considered that.
Thank you for your reply and criticism.
Regards
Juhani Numminen
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