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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:03AM (#19806912)
Except that Snaps and Flatpack are over-engineered inflexible garbage compared to how this is handled in sane environments. Flatpack can't even handle the concept of installing to different media without building a brand new repository on it FFS (I don't know if this is true of Snap because it is far too Canonical-centric for my tastes). There's no reason it has to be like this.

Even AppImage is slightly over-engineered in my opinion, but otherwise the only real failing of it is that since there's no standard for ELF embedded icons (wtf is wrong with UNIX devs!?) it's a shit-show to get them to show up as anything other than a generic one.

This isn't hard, Linux people. Just standardize on a set of core libraries and stop breaking ABI outside of major versions, then you'll magically have this thing we call a "platform" upon which applications can run without being recompiled.

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by v_lisivka on Thursday May 02, 2019 @10:31AM (#19808275)
Your helping hand is welcome! Even coordination of developers toward solution is helping a lot, because we have no free but dedicated managers. We are developers after all.

Create ticket in bug trackers of all major distributions and describe the problem and your proposed solution. If your vision is right and attractive, developers will join the movement. This isn't hard, it's just time-consuming.

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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:59PM (#19810597)
I would, except I've seen others do that and they are unsurprisingly ignored or ridiculed. Someone already made a standard proposal for ELF icons, nobody uses it.
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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by kkarakk on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:25AM (#19816807)
Linux open source - you can contribute but on your own fork over there in the dark far away from us enlightened folk that actually make worthwhile contributions to this project. I only contribute on things that clearly have no "stewardship" or vested interests, lots of useful proposals shot down
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Re:World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later by sascha_sl on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:32PM (#19814043)
Wow, very constructive, great post, love it, keep it up.
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