>> thing (which is very similar to AppleScript) but failed to
incorporate
>> DCF support.
> What's that? But it supports DCOP scripting. And I thought if you
need
> scripting use shell scripts. Why script a GUI thing?
AppleScript - It is a scripting language which allows you to automate
a series
of tasks on a Macintosh
DCF - Distributed Computing Framework.
Things like CORBA, OpenDOC, DCOM, etc...
>> Why can't the OpenSource community "innovate"?
> Oops.. I thought it's the other way round..
I might be wrong in the next sentence, but could you show me one
instance of innovation by the OpenSource community?
Something which is really path-breaking?
What I have observed over years is that, closed products come out with
some of the best designed and implemented stuff, then the OpenSource
community comes out with an version which is seemingly better
implemented than the original thing.
>> Desktop environments don't dictate that all the components should
be
>> integrated with each other, they just dicatate that they should
follow
>> a standard UI policy, and prefer to have the apps inter-operable.
>
> Certainly you are misinterpreting the thing. If you say X don't
allow a
> standard UI policy, I think we need to discuss what's policy? Do
you mean a
> single GUI API routed thr. single set of dlls. I wouldn't consider
that as
> policy.
You aren't getting the point, X is just set of protocols to handle
graphics, to make X really usable, you need to have Window Managers,
to make it programmable you need to have widget sets (Linux has a
whole lot of them).
And then there will be disparate programmers using disparate widget
sets which ultimately do not interoperate.
> My advice. The catch with linux is that it's just different. Don't
put any
> labels and compare it with oranges and apples. Learn the way it
works and I
> am sure you will appreciate it..
Well, again you talk without proper study or understanding of the
issues.
A user should _not_ have to learn a way a system works, but rather, a
system
has to be designed such that a user doesn't have to put in a lot of
efforts to learn it.
And my advise is the catch with Linux is that, well, just that it does
have a "catch"...
> I usually don't follow-up two posts for single thread but couldn't
help it
> this time..
Thanks for the effort.
~Mayuresh
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