From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,fc2b5af8782d4ca3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.180.24.232 with SMTP id x8mr776840wif.7.1362284075375; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:14:35 -0800 (PST) Path: bp2ni69463wib.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.138.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.nobody.at!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: can one make a static build Ada+GUI GTK application? Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:58:13 +0100 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: References: <20130228010057.13659976@hactar.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: FbOMkhMtVLVmu7IwBnt1tw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2013-02-28T09:58:13+01:00 List-Id: On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:46:09 -0600, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Ok, so I made a program and I want to email it > to my grandmother's aunt to play a game on the computer. > My Aunt has no clue what is a package manager is. She just > knows how to click using a mouse. Hmm, actually people who don't know computers have much bigger difficulties with very concept of a file being kept somewhere, moved around, executed. Your logic might apply only to someone who had some experience with MS-DOS and then spent 20 years in coma. (:-)) > So, you expect my grandmother's aunt to use a package manager to > go search for missing packages from the net. No, Yum (and APT) does all that as well as the corresponding GUI front-end(s). > Yes. Sound like a winner idea. That is why Linux never made it > to the desktop and will never make it. Not for this reason, surely. > All what normal users want is one icon to click on to run > a program. Only if you took a time machine back to early 90's. Today we have many thousands of programs installed on the computer. You cannot have their icons visible. Layman users do not even think it in terms of programs. It is not only files which they do not understand. Neither they do programs. Try to explain your aunt the difference between "firefox" and "nautilus," why things she sees in one do not appear in another. Why downloaded "book" does not appear in her Kindle etc. "Normal users" see computer as an unsorted mess of clickable GUI elements. > Anything more is too complicated for the normal users. True, that is why you should not only package your software, that would be only first step. Then you have to create a repository or else submit your package to an existing one. You also have to add scripts to the package which would make your program appear in the GNOME's list of applications (and for KDE and dozen's other window managers) ... if you wanted to address users as your aunt. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de