"Getting ready for the Desktop issue #321" (was: Mandrake 9.0 POLY ARGO: Poio einai to provlhma?)

[fateswarm]

> DJ Art <djart at linux.gr> wrote to us:
>
> Πάντως: 
> 
> > FSAA, 
> > true transparencies,
> > Alpha Blending,
> > 3D feeling και σκιές πίσω από τα μενού
> > ttf fonts στο (απολιθωμένο πλέον) xterm
> > ξεκούραστα γαλάζια themes (Keramik inside)
> > tabs στο xterm
> > καμπύλες (το σημαντικότερο από όλα μετά το TTF+FSAA)
> 
> όλα αυτά ΔΕΝ είναι χαρακτηριστικά που μπορούμε να πούμε ότι μοιάζουν στο 
> υπονοούμενο γνωστό εμπορικό λειτουργικό .... ;> 
> Είναι κάτι πάνω από αυτά.

koita ntaksi, sobara milontas, oso anikanh einai h microsoft na
prosferei ena pragmatika low level periballon ston xrhsth, sto opoio low
level sumperilambanetai kai h probolh tou idiou tou source pou
dhmiourgei to environment, exoun dwsei ola ta lefta sto na kanoun ena
leitourgiko pou exei para8irakia. me ta xronia eftase se ena epipedo
sta8erotitas se auto to tomea pou ksepernaei kata polu ta unix
leitourgika.

alla, me dedomeno oti oi perissoteroi developers akoma kai xrhstes twn
unix leitourgikwn koitane perissotero to low level kai to terminal
environment para to desktop, den einai 8ema perissoterwn xrhmatwn oute
perissoterhs empeirias. apla, ean o kosmos twn unix leitourgikwn
apoktisei perissotero kosmo pou asxolitai me to desktop 8a ginoun
kalutera pragmata, eite an to sunolo twn an8rwpwn pou asxolountai ginei
megalutero, eite ean metatopistoun merikoi nyn concole users sto
desktop.

Epeidi poloi edo skeftontai oti einai anwfelo na metatopistoun console
users sto desktop na apanthsw oti yparxoun poloi sobaroi logoi gia na
sumbei auto. den einai mono pos blepeis ta email sou kai pou grafeis ti
c sou, einai kai ti akribos 8es na kaneis. an mia mera kapoios hardcore
console user mpei se mia omada pou ftiaxnei ena grafiko programma, opws
p.x. ena 3D CAD programma pou xwris X server 8a htan axrhsto h' apla
panasxhmo, 8a xriastei na perasei sto desktop. Ekei 8a dei pws exei
apaithseis opws exei kai se ka8e allo environment tou prosefere to
terminal.

Episis, 8a me poun malaka edo poloi, alla de peirazei, oi closed source
etairies prepei na exoun ena sta8ero periballon anaptukshs ton
programmatwn tous. Gia na doume perissoteres megales etairies na
antimetopizoun to linux san platforma polhsewn tous 8a prepei kai na to
empisteuontai gia ta security kolpa tous alla kai na ais8anontai oti
exoun na kanoun me kati pou de 8a allaksei ragdaia se ena xrono, kai
epishs na kseroun oti auto pou bgazoun 8a apeu8in8ei sto 100% h' estw
sto 90% twn linux xrhstwn.

Exoume gia paradeigma thn Alias Wavefront, pou ekane th polh sebasth
kinhsh na kukloforisei to Maya gia linux. H etairia auth den einai pekse
gelase, exei apo pisw oloklhrh omada pou grafei documendation. To
documendation pou grafoun - edo 8a parakseneutoun poloi - grafetai
parallhla gia windows kai linux, an diabaseis se windows ta docs tous
sunexos blepeis remarks gia linux, sa na mhn eftane auto, ksekinane
legontas pia einai ta command lines gia thn efarmogh - asxeta oti auta
isxioun kai se windows, de suni8izetai h xrhsh tous ekei.

Par'olh th prospa8ia ekeinhs ths etairias pano sti linux platforma exoun
ena documendation team pou prepei na einai APSOGO gia na dikaiologisoun
th timh pou dinoun sto proion alla kai ena support team pou prepei na
einai APSOGO. 

Anagkazontai omws na upostirizoun MONO ti "tade" ekdosh redhat mexri th
"dina" ekdosh redhat giati de mporoun na kanoun alliws. 8eloun na dwsoun
to apoluta katatopistiko support kai xwris na kseroun ep'akribos ta mesa
kai ta ekso mia dianomhs de mporoun na boithisoun toso swsta oste na
dikaiologoun allwste th timh tou proiontos.

Mesa se ola auta uparxei to dedomeno oti den einai "anagkaio kako" na
einai toso asta8es to desktop setup sto linux kai toso aparaithto
na einai phgh tou kakou to gegonos oti einai open source. Me apla logia,
den einai oute eu8inh twn etairiwn na einai open source oute na bgazoyn
binaries twn programmatwn tous ka8e 3is kai ligo epeidi h kuria mandrake
apofasise na balei ti tade beta eksosh twn X kai de ksero go ti allo. 

H unix koinothta exei na "geuetai" th xrhsh enos terminal environment
pou exei perasei 30 xronia dokimasiwn kai testing, ena desktop
environment pou mono ta teleutaia 5 xronia pou egine polu gnosto to
linux arxisan na to pernoun sobara kai na kanoun ali8ino bug testing. 

Me ola auta sth mia meria, mh ksexname kai oles tis omades pou kanoun
pragmata akoma kai se GPL sto desktop periballon. Exoume omades pou
ftiaxnoun GPL cross platform 3d engines me platforma anaptikshs to linux
kai einai pio sta8ero to software se windows! Giati; Giati ekei einai
2 ekdoseis na tous endiaferoun toulaxiston auth tin epoxh. To windos XP
kai to windos 98. Exoun ap'tin allh ena linux desktop environment pou
eksartatai apo:
- ti libraries gia DRM exei balei to ka8e distribution
- ti drivers edose to nvidia group
- ti <your library here> exei o ka8enas
- ti <other app here> exei o ka8enas

Se mia epoxh opou tora to linux exei arxisei na apoktaei pragmatikh
empeiria sto Desktop as mh geliomaste, oso omorfa kai an einai ta
para8irakia mas kai ta kde mas kai ta icewm mas, toso asta8h einai sto
blema tou sobarou desktop developer kai kuriws, twn closed source
etairiwn pou 8eloun mia sta8erh platforma na patisoun pano kai gia
kalutera proionta alla kai gia kalitero support. Kai san na mh  eftanan
ola auta, "paidia ths GPL" na emfanizontai me to idio problima
teleutaia, oxi epeidi de 8a dinoun  sosto support, alla giati 10 atoma
8a einai sthn omada, oute auta de ftanoun na dwsoun oloklhromenh eikona
gia to ti desktop exei o ka8enas xrhsths tous.

Arga alla sta8era, "we're getting there" pantos, ego parameno
aisiodoksos. 

-fs