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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationUntz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaborationPosted Jan 26, 2011 5:54 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)Parent article: Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration
looking at the agenda for the meeting, the very first thing on the agenda should not have been there (agree on a common UI for installing software)
trying to define a common UI across all distros is very much the wrong thing to do. A UI that is good for a high-powered machine with a 1080P display is going to be horrible on a phone or tablet with a 800x600 (or less) display and vice versa. and when you consider server distros where you may only have a serial console, the idea of standardizing the UI is even sillier.
If the people who attended managed to reach agreement on this issue, it's a clear signal that they don't have a clue and should be ignored.
the fact that this was one of 4 items on the agenda indicates that whoever created the agenda should not be trusted in this area.
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Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 26, 2011 6:21 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Your objections don't take into consideration the context. The UI that is being discussed is only for the desktop. Not for tablets of servers or whatever else.
Untz: Results of the App Installer meeting, and some thoughts on cross-distro collaboration Posted Jan 27, 2011 2:18 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] looking at the agenda for the meeting, the very first thing on the agenda should not have been there (agree on a common UI for installing software) Isn't that called PackageKit?
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