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Why browser and mail program ? I mean I can understand usability considerations of photo apps and music player, but you can do so much more by dropping effort o
by sandGorgon 13y ago
Why browser and mail program ? I mean I can understand usability considerations of photo apps and music player, but you can do so much more by dropping effort on those two apps.
I dont mean it in a "resistance is futile" kind of way - but more in terms of not-immediately-needed kind of way. Especially the browser. Webmail suffices for now - I know people want a Sparrow-like mail app on the desktop, but there is so much more effort that can be put in on projects like color calibration, Redshift-like functionality [1], etc.
You are off to a decent start - I really, really hope that you guys dont start building Twitter apps. Instead you should expose API guidelines for things like Contractor (OSX Services?) and have something like extensions.gnome.org - but maybe in Vala for performance.
Just my $0.02.
[1] http://jonls.dk/redshift/ http://jonls.dk/redshift/
- aroman 13y agoAll of the apps you mentioned are third-party. We do not directly develop the mail or browser programs. I'm not sure what you meant about Contractor, because we definitely do have API guidelines for it. Also, there is an excellent third-party Twitter app for elementary OS called Birdie: http://birdieapp.github.io/ http://birdieapp.github.io/ I appreciate the input :)
- sciurus 13y agoFree software color calibration has actually come a long way in the past few years thanks to Richard Hughes work on the software and hardware side. https://lwn.net/Articles/460678/ https://lwn.net/Articles/460678/ http://www.hughski.com/ http://www.hughski.com/