Re:Apple is a traditional business
by jjrh on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:21PM
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> OSX is just *nix with a nice GUI (something open source could learn from).
I think open source developers know this but it's not their expertise. What we need is a way to make it easier for people with that expertise to contribute to projects.
Doing a bit of work with GTK I realised just how hard it is to abstract the look/design stuff out, it's very intertwined with the code meaning folks with artistic ability have a steep learning make seemingly minor GUI changes.
This explains why the web looks really good and stuff like electron is attractive.
I think open source developers know this but it's not their expertise. What we need is a way to make it easier for people with that expertise to contribute to projects.
Doing a bit of work with GTK I realised just how hard it is to abstract the look/design stuff out, it's very intertwined with the code meaning folks with artistic ability have a steep learning make seemingly minor GUI changes.
This explains why the web looks really good and stuff like electron is attractive.