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Re: A way to activate our efforts / open multimedia standards / Re: Developers tools?
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 02:14:54PM +0300, Roman Suzi wrote:
> And yes, needless to say, these tools better not create
> bloatware monsters! Once I tried a Borland C++ 4.5 on PC Plus
> SuperCD to make a simple menu program (which did almost
> nothing).
>
> It was a shock when I saw 1 Mb exe-file!!!
>
> IMHO, object-oriented programming needs to be revised a lot
> with new ideas and implementations.
>
> I don't like to see any bloatware for Linux! Yes, multimedia
> programs are huge. But this must be because of
> video/audio/photo data they manage, not the bloatness of the
> code.
I don't have any extensive experience with visual tools, but it is my
impression that the programs created with them often lack
customizable interface. For me, customization is very important. I
think it is one of the strenths of Linux.
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> I mean, do we have 10-20 man-hour project list which could be
> done with pleasure and satisfaction with VisualTcl for example?
>
> May be we can raise practical activity by doing a lot of small
> non-ambitious projects, which we can then present on a web -
> and the eduware web-page will not look empty!
>
> OTOH, these "quickies" could distract efforts from larger
> projects... But I think there we win more than lose.
>
> Summary: its very hard to decide to participate in a large
> eduware project due to lack of tools for quiality multimedia.
> Could we instead make a lot little things ("quickies"), so the
> list of accomplishements will not look empty and attract more
> people, more developers, more clients with their wishes? (and
> at the same time we will start to get satisfaction early?)
>
> Can somebody from this list (better NOT developers themselves)
> provide ideas for small projects, that is programs, which could
> be made by professional programmers at leasure or by beginners
> with equal (and quick) satisfaction?
One thing I can think of right now (amof, I have been thinking about it
for a while) is a simple geometry program. Good start would be just
compass and straightedge constructions, with nice interface, easy to
use. That should be fairly simple. Later, other stuff can be added.
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Jan Hlav\'{a}\v{c}ek
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