Thread: Commercial Software. Evil?
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BoxOfSnoo is offline BoxOfSnoo
2008-04-14 , 00:33
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#34
Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
We have been complaining about Application Mangler since day one and it's only got worse. It's now gone so far that I can no longer see package names. I agree that apt-get works (thank Bog for that!), but why is it seemingly so difficult to implement something that works?! Synaptic is a perfectly working package manager...
Absolutely, the package manager needs a) an overhaul and b) options. Aptitude is another great utility. I haven't been having problems with App Manager, though I think it's clumsy.

Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
You may think that the defective home screen is a detail, but it happens to be the screen I have open the most.
Again, you call it defective, many don't. Same with the applications menu, I like the big icons much better. I install favorites-menu too and have everything in two or three taps... last thing I want to do is pull out the lousy stylus to launch a program that is probably finger-friendly anyway.

Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
As I don't have crapOS2008 installed, I haven't seen the xterm build for it. Does it do everything I can now do in my 2007 xterm?
The shipping one is weak; the toolbar options are broken. The Ctrl button is ******ed, but it was in OS2007 too (the dialog comes up and the keyboard goes away?!). The newest build, available from some individuals is much better.