Plasma Active App Store Notes

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 16 March 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday, March 15, 2012 23:25:48 you wrote:
> > > i appreciate your concerns. i don't agree, however, with your
> > > conclusions
> > > 
> > > :)
> > 
> > I agree with you about this point. From the blog post that Shantanu
> > pasted above, it seems to me you dislike certain things about
> > opendesktop.org.
> 
> if i want to bake bread, i'll use an oven. not a hammer or a blender. an
> oven.
> 
> i like hammers. and blenders. but when baking bread, they aren't useful.
> 
> when making synchrotron, opendesktop.org simply could not do what was
> needed. and other than the non-free implementation, none of the actual
> issues are fixable. it is a hammer when i needed an oven. so no, it has
> nothing to do with liking or disliking, but realizing the appropriateness
> of a tool.
> 
> the same is true for OCS and our add-ons app.
> 

for the records, i think ocs(2?) should be worth considering if we will want 
in the future social networkish features like "items bought from your 
friends", but not for the whole thing.

Cheers,
Marco Martin