When I first posted about the matter, most people’s reaction was LOL. The we thought it was just a random proposal, never going to be approved. Well, according to OMGUbuntu’s do0d, the GIMP has just have been said bye bye in favor of having just F-Spot to edit photos. The rationale is pretty much the same of what we seen in my the proposal: the general user doesn’t use it its user-interface is too complex …
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Code Talks
Some days ago I stumbled on an old post of Matthew Paul Thomas, Canonical employee: Why Free Software has poor usability. Disagreeing on about everything written in there, I decided to pull out a long reply to each one of the points made. Of course, that’s not really a direct response to him, but more an occasion for a general reflection. From time to time, people jump up and say that free software usability suck. …
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly. How to waste time.
This post is inspired by a comment from CaptainHawk and by Linux Loop’s article “Repository Adding Via Apt-URL – An Overlooked Feature of Ubuntu 9.04“. So, let’s look how the feature will be implemented and why it is overlooked. (hint: because it sucks). Introduction, apt-url and the problem (you can skip this) Thanks to the .deb format, installing any software not present in the repositories is as easy as downloading the file, clicking on it …
