Talk:Application Crossover Chart
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Needs subsections
I think we need to organize this into subsections, once the list gets big this might get a little confusing and out of hand.
Thoughts?
--Ninwa
www.ninwa.net
This page is getting a bit manic right now, there's links getting added and removed, edits happening about once every minute. Several commits have completely ignored later additions. We need to slow down, collate all the bits and pieces together and put a more complete version in.
-- palfrey
- seconded, MathFox 13:32, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)
- Slashdot effect as applied to Linux-advice sites... everyone and their dog wants to tell you about their pet program, and they're all desparate to help. I'm for the "wait for all this to die off, then grep the diffs for a comprehensive list" option. Is there anyway we can see a list of the diffs for the history of a document? -- palfrey 19:50, 14/6/2004 (CEST)
- You can get a revision history by clicking the "Page history" link on each page
- Jeremy 18:09, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)
- No kidding, people keep completely disregarding committs and conflicts and just overwrite the whole thing with their changes, wiping out a few prior changes. You guys need to work out conflicts, not erase the problem entirely, otherwise we wont make any real progress... --Ninwa 14:18, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)
I liked the older version better. -Scott
Don't forget jEdit
jEdit is a cross-platform java based editor. It is one of the best if you are into Java based stuff.
The homepage is http://www.jedit.org
KDE/GNOME/X/etc?
Does it really make sense to separate out the KDE apps from the GNOME apps and so on? I mean, I use GNOME but I can certainly use KWord if I want to. And similarly it may not be obvious at first glance that if you are a GNOME or KDE user it has nothing to do with whether you can use OpenOffice, which is neither.
-A different Scott
I think it's more of a reference as to which Desktop Environment you need installed (not neccasarily need to be using) for the applications to work.
--Ninwa 20:30, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)
agree with scott
I was just considering starting something very much like this and in the background research, found this page. I'd rather contribute to this project which seems to have built up a critical mass of contributors.
I'd echo the different scott above:
The table somewhat confusingly separates apps for 3 Linux window managers into different categories and ignores both the Macintosh and cross platform apps such as those written in Java, Python, Perl, etc.
The URLs point directly to the app's home page, which is a standard methodology, but bypasses a lot of info about the app that could help more immediately. Perhaps the names could continue to be linked to the home page, but further icons could be linked to relevant reviews:
ie: OpenOffice.org -> http://www.openoffice.org [r] -> points to personal review [R] -> points to Journal or professional review [T] -> points to a the start of a relevant listserv thread etc.
once the app has more than 2 following links, it could be linked to an interim page that holds all the fanout links, possibly including a summary for the newbie.
--hjmangalam Jan 05/07
Discussions on applications are off-topic here
Please consider building other pages for application discussions. This is already a very detailed page... keep it as clean as possible with links to other pages with a more defined scope
Perhaps
Like the above said, perhaps we should instead of providing links to the homepage of the product, provide a link to a wiki page with more details on that product, including the homepage. Let's not lose site of what GrokDoc is though, on those pages for specific applications should newbie user's usability problems.
--Ninwa 20:32, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)
