gnucash's dependencies criticized/OT
Paul Lussier
pll@mclinux.com
Wed, 20 Jun 2001 09:51:22 -0400
In a message dated: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:09:36 CDT
Bill Gribble said:
>You can complain about gnome-print needing esound, but can you
>complain about providing a uniform sound API for desktop applications
>within the framework, or about client libraries using that library to
>provide various beeps, bongs, and bells instead of directly opening
>the sound device and stomping on other apps that might be doing sound
>stuff? "Real programs just use the console beep", you say? uh,
>right.
>
>IMO, it's a deceptive oversimplification to say that "gnome-print
>depends on esound". The truth is that "Gnome applications depend on a
>complete set of Gnome system resources being installed". There's
>nothing broken or worthy of ridicule there. KDE and Gnome are trying
>to respond to users' desires that applications work together and share
>system components, and it's totally reasonable to require a basic set
>of those components to be installed.
Bill,
Thanks for the explanation. I never realized exactly how
environments like Gnome or KDE work. I found it quite enlightening
to realize that they're just expanding the basic Unix philosophy of
pipes, sockets, and redirection to a much greater scale.
Knowing this, I feel a little better (though I still don't think I
need sound to print ;)
Thanks for the great explanation and for learning me something new
today :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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