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No clarification at any point was necessary. Despite your rant here, I made no claims as to which was better, or whether a users opinion on that particular aspe
by arghwhat 7y ago
No clarification at any point was necessary. Despite your rant here, I made no claims as to which was better, or whether a users opinion on that particular aspect was valid. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so one cannot claim right or wrong.
What I stated was that development decisions, whatever they are, are up to the developers, including which frameworks they wish to use, and how they wish to use them. Saying in any form that you don't want developers to make decisions is nonsensical, as they would not be able to write anything then. Decisions have to be made, compromises chosen, and ultimately, not everyone will get their will.
If you don't want other developers to make decisions for you, you're stuck writing all the software you want to use yourself.
- zapzupnz 7y ago> If you don't want other developers to make decisions for you, you're stuck writing all the software you want to use yourself. I suspect this of being as recent an attitude as "no, it's fine that a desktop chat client should take up nearly 4 GB doing absolutely nothing, memory is made to be used". There are enough of us who lived through the days when, no, developers didn't need to make certain decisions for us on the Linux desktop. It wasn't a perfect time but it did exist — as recently as ten years to fifteen years ago in the days of GTK+2 and KDE 3. Again, it wasn't perfect, but those days contradict your assertion. People shouldn't have their opinions discounted because they're no longer in vogue.