Dear All,
I think we have to get something straight here before
running into unecessary disputes: First "Entrance" is
a FREE software and when you refer to a GPL license, it states:
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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which to some extent is the correct Philosophy (although some might argue
that the software is not GPL and so on). You are not paying the developer
to do this job and he's doing it out of kindness in his spare time. So you
can't really bug/insult the developer in that respect when he's providing
FREE software.
If you're paying the guy milions of dollars, then you expect a certain
decent result and support. Only when you're paying for a service, then you
expect it to be good and can complain about it. :-)
Secondly "Entrance", like "E17", is still in an experimental stage. Ibukun
has already told us that beforehand. So you have been warned if you want
to install it. If it doesn't work, you can't also blame him! It's ALPHA as
he said! You might ask now, why is it available? Simple answer: It's meant
ONLY for developers, people who have the time, expertise and knowledge to
debug the whole thing. ALPHA means that it's not meant for everyday users
to use.
If you really want to help, go in CVS, download the whole source code,
compile, run, test, debug and send patches to the core developer.
Communicate in the developers mailing list when running into
problems. That's how people can help.
You can't help by just saying "I want to help". You have to do some
homework on your own first by understanding the source code and knowing
what you're dealing with. Find flaws, locate the buggy code then
discuss!:-)
For some people, Entrance actually worked pretty well, one example is
Andrew Johnson (ajgenius _AT_ ajgenius.us) from GNOME art side. I was
discussing with him a while ago on irc and he told me that he has
successfully installed and tested "Entrance". I believe he's thinking of
theming too!
Anyway Ibukun wrote:
> This means that if you can't get it to
> work, or it blows up your hard drive in the process, you're on your own.
> :)
We should not take this too personnally. It's a way to tell you not to try
out if you don't know what you're dealing with.
So personnally, I don't go and try experimental software as I've a whole
lot of Physics equations, simulations, and experimental work to deal with
everyday. So I use gdm and E16 as I don't have the time to go and
play around with Entrance and E17, and on top of that going to find
bugs. :-)
Hope this mail will be useful to find a common understanding and
reaffirming the meaning of free software.
With kind regards,
Didier.
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Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS)
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Singapore 117603
Email: slsbdfc at nus dot edu dot sg \or\
didierbe at sps dot nus dot edu dot sg
Website: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg
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