Le 30/01/2017 à 19:46, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit :
Of course it does, glasses greatly improve the problem, they do not make it go away.
[..] Ok, I was just bugging you on this one.
"I don't buy this argument at all: tooltips were modified to become unreadable, there are responsibility behind to be taken by someone. FOSS is not an excuse for mere quality."
This implies that commercial software does not have crappy GUI, to my experience 90% of it does. Mainly because the GUI is for some weird
This is your say not mine. Free software to get success really need to have strong argument.
Also being a FOSS is an excuse for mere quality.
No, free software is like Darwinism, evolve and adapt to your ecosystem or disappear, same for proprietary software but... ...free software contrary to proprietary software may evolve more easily because of the source code at the disposal of everyone, so evolution and adaptation is easier, quicker. This is exactly what happen to Squeak, then the Pharo fork was the promise for a better software with a different management and more software evolution. In the long term Squeak may just be better, nothing is written in stone as in evolution. Pharo to attract more users in its community has no choice but to improve its overall quality; and as well the first impression count, little details can make some important different to retain users. For example in DrGeo, without affordable tooltips, people will just run it then go away, no obvious way to figure out this mess.
FOSS is about working for free
Again no :) There is paid people like in proprietary software and the bonus of unpaid talented or less talented people. Don't think the unpaid people are the looser, they may gain other important things like learning and improving own knowledge, experimenting/implementing new idea (got several case like that in DrGeo history), improving self-confidence, improving the part you need for your onw stuff/business, etc. So all in all, in the long term I think free software should be superior in quality and affordability to proprietary software.
The last time I fixed a bug in Pharo , there was so much complaining about the way I fixed it that I decided that it would be the very last
But I bet you learn things, especially when people were complaining: its was feedbacks, as the tooltips in the GUI provide it ;) Hilaire -- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu