Thread: Sailfish(Jolla): Ideas/Qns & Concerns/Criticisms
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2013-07-18 , 06:40
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#673
Originally Posted by Morpog View Post
And I don't see that much of benefit for Nemo if Sailfish apps would be open, as Nemo seems to move to own QML components.
Yeah but they've only gone this way because the Sailfish_Alliance (remember that, WTF ever happened to it!?) has taken so freaking long to get off the ground.
If they had stopped "fart-arsing" around MONTHS ago, both projects could be working on the same UI/UX now, or very soon...

Just UI would be duplicate. But better a duplicate UI, as apps that don't fit into the UI/UX.
Just the UI? It's a big waste of resources for Jolla's Sailfish & Nemo, but especially Nemo, the entire community could be working with common components & UI/UX.
That way there's no messing around with porting apps between 2x platforms that are essentially supposed to be helping one another, not hindering one another in some way.
But as you said, so long as most of the important middle-ware remains exactly the same it shouldn't be a huge problem, but it's far from optimal.

Sure I can see your point that everything open would be ideal. But how should their product be successfull? Copycats would take it all.
That's why they were originally going to keep only "core/stock apps" closed, & license that version of Sailfish...
If Silica itself is completely open, then why the heck not use it as the basis for Nemo's UI/UX, instead of building completely new/separate components?
Last edited by jalyst; 2013-07-18 at 08:27.
 

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