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Ever heard of xournal and xournal++ They are already better solutions. I hope you had contributed to those projects rather than reinventing the wheel.

jstimpfle 4y ago
If everybody used things that are "already better", then nobody would ever start something new. Even more, if everybody had to have the goal to arrive "something better" at some time in the future, most projects wouldn't get started. It's super valid to do something for your own edification and learning purposes. Another good motivation is to explore new ways to try to write the same (or even less functional) thing but in a better way.
- gauddasa 4y ago
  They are open source, not closed source, that's the main reason I said "reinventing the wheel". xournal++ supports typing text, drawing with stroke recognition, supports touch displays, stylus, mouse, equations and also, pdf files can be used as background. I repeat: When a better "approach" is available, why go for an inferior approach. I am comparing the ways things are being done, not just comparing final products.
  - vidarh 4y ago
    The very first line of the linked article gets at why xournal++ is not suitable for the author of this: > I like plain text. xournal++ uses XML. While I'm not likely to use this editor much, the use of plain text for all but the illustrations makes me at least curious. Xournal++ is totally uninteresting to me - if I need a document format I have plenty of choices with broader support. That's not a criticism. I'm sure it's great. But people have different needs.
- gauddasa 4y ago
  I disagree with your assumption that this approach is better than xournal++ approach.<br> Do you really believe this is "better way" than xournal++? If if had been a better way than xournal++, I would not have commented about xournal++ in first place.
  - jstimpfle 4y ago
    That is't my assumption. My assumption is they don't have to be "better than". If they feel they got something out of it, that is enough justification. What is wrong with you?
    - gauddasa 4y ago
      Oh, got your point. It's an experimentation then. I thought it's an advertisement, so I too started advertising xournal++.
      - beowulfey 4y ago
        Welcome to Hacker News. The community is generally very open to new ideas, and loves to see personal projects, but they are not exactly "advertisements" and there is no reason to think of a project that is somewhat similar to your own as being "in competition". That kind of confrontational attitude is disfavored here. Xournal++ looks like a very nice piece of software. Thank you for sharing; I had never seen it before. It is worth submitting it separately so others can see it too (perhaps not today, unless you want people to make the connection with your comments here -- I don't think it would go over well).

jstimpfle 4y ago

If everybody used things that are "already better", then nobody would ever start something new. Even more, if everybody had to have the goal to arrive "something better" at some time in the future, most projects wouldn't get started. It's super valid to do something for your own edification and learning purposes. Another good motivation is to explore new ways to try to write the same (or even less functional) thing but in a better way.

gauddasa 4y ago
They are open source, not closed source, that's the main reason I said "reinventing the wheel". xournal++ supports typing text, drawing with stroke recognition, supports touch displays, stylus, mouse, equations and also, pdf files can be used as background. I repeat: When a better "approach" is available, why go for an inferior approach. I am comparing the ways things are being done, not just comparing final products.
- vidarh 4y ago
  The very first line of the linked article gets at why xournal++ is not suitable for the author of this: > I like plain text. xournal++ uses XML. While I'm not likely to use this editor much, the use of plain text for all but the illustrations makes me at least curious. Xournal++ is totally uninteresting to me - if I need a document format I have plenty of choices with broader support. That's not a criticism. I'm sure it's great. But people have different needs.
gauddasa 4y ago
I disagree with your assumption that this approach is better than xournal++ approach.<br> Do you really believe this is "better way" than xournal++? If if had been a better way than xournal++, I would not have commented about xournal++ in first place.
- jstimpfle 4y ago
  That is't my assumption. My assumption is they don't have to be "better than". If they feel they got something out of it, that is enough justification. What is wrong with you?
  - gauddasa 4y ago
    Oh, got your point. It's an experimentation then. I thought it's an advertisement, so I too started advertising xournal++.
    - beowulfey 4y ago
      Welcome to Hacker News. The community is generally very open to new ideas, and loves to see personal projects, but they are not exactly "advertisements" and there is no reason to think of a project that is somewhat similar to your own as being "in competition". That kind of confrontational attitude is disfavored here. Xournal++ looks like a very nice piece of software. Thank you for sharing; I had never seen it before. It is worth submitting it separately so others can see it too (perhaps not today, unless you want people to make the connection with your comments here -- I don't think it would go over well).