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My feeling is that we need to define a fixed point like an API at the interface of software developers and desktop designers. The fixed point would allow devel
by chmike 8y ago
My feeling is that we need to define a fixed point like an API at the interface of software developers and desktop designers.
The fixed point would allow developpers to develop apps that would compile and run on any desktops, and desktop or distribution designers need liberty degree to explore, innovate and evolve.
POSIX did this for the unix commands and system function API, and it was a success. It isn't perfect, but it provided a fixed point. Windows has Win32, etc.
- pjmlp 8y agoThere is a UNIX standard for GUIs, that "beautiful" Motif thing, which naturally is not something that consumers would like to deal with. http://www.opengroup.org/standards/unix http://www.opengroup.org/standards/unix
- chmike 8y agoThat's not an API. The goal is to let desktop developper inovate by keeping backward compatibility with desktop applications.