In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
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wrote
on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:56:43 +0200
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> "Ezekiel" <y@xxxxx> writes:
>
>> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:rm4dj5-b27.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
>>> <brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:26:18 -0400
>>> <uucu240iiq4v.fig4tkc6eyfg$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:06:47 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> PackageKit finds sweet spot in quest for universal package tools
>>>>
>>>> Oh brother...I can't wait to see this clusterfsck in action.
>>>> The various Linux distributions can't even get their own various package
>>>> managers working correctly.
>>>> So now we get to propagate the failures across various other
>>>> distributions.
>>>>
>>>> What a mess.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try looking at the webpage:
>>>
>>> http://www.packagekit.org/
>>>
>>> Do they think we're illiterate? Ye gods.
>>
>> Ye gods is right. Is this targeting "developers" or small children in 3rd
>> world countries that just got their first OLPC handed to them?
>>
>> I've seen webpages that are "dumbed down" for the user but this cuts the
>> cake.
>
> I like it. It's clean, concise and well written.
Past the home page, perhaps. I'll admit I didn't peruse
the rest of it. I'd redo the homepage, certainly, to
make it more appealing to a wider audience. Something
along the lines of openoffice.org, which doesn't
insult my intelligence/literacy, though I can't say
I like the "I want to " approach the OO website uses.
As it is, packagekit.org is reminiscent (to me, anyway)
of http://www.mrmen.com/ (which actually is a pretty
good Flash-based website, and a great time-waster if
one wants to wander through the two dozen characters (!)
and explore their admittedly limited personalities)
or http://pbskids.org/teletubbies/teletubbyland.html
(just in case one can't get enough of those lovable(?)
fuzzy things, I guess).
Even http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/ is
more complicated than http://www.packagekit.org/ .
I'll be the first to admit, though, that it's easy
to criticize, hard to develop, even harder to fix.
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