Subject: Re: Use anti-advocacy as a source of information. From: Kevin Huber Date: 1998/05/14 Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy "VHA" == VHA PC Development writes: VHA> There seem to be some anti-advocates around lately. They could VHA> be a useful source of information as to what would make LINUX an VHA> even better system. Rather than argue or try to disprove by VHA> rhetoric what they say, we could use what they say to polish the VHA> system and make it better. Everybody wins. -- To a large extent, it isn't the Linux kernel that gets criticized -- it's the GUI, and the lack of some types of GUI applications. "Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible " --L Wall. GNOME seems to have the highest potential, but it needs more development time. Enter: wxGTK. I think this is the beginning of a great cross-platform toolkit. The advantage is immense - now Linux programmers, forced to work as Microsoft lackeys, can do their development on Linux and port it to the Dark Side much more easily. Unfortunately, cross-platform development has been tried before (and failed) -- wxWidgets itself has been less popular than one would think. I believe that the popularity of GTK, along with the open source model have a good chance of prevailing this time. The problem is the classic 90% one -- people get 90% of the way to a great GUI tool kit, then drop it in the last 10% where stuff has to be well documented and generally robust and bug free. This was mentioned in a recent LJ article about GUI toolkits. -Kevin