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Originally posted by andresmi View PostUgh, I see no benefits and only downsides. It will be even slower, introduce new bugs, and provide no real security IMO. But this seems to be the trend in gnome, let's take what works well, break it, remove any useful features, add a 1000 new bugs, do tons of random pointless things, add features that are broken and useless and make it run as slow as humanly possible.
Ok, maybe I am exaggerating a bit. I have just gotten more and more annoyed with this sort of #@*(Y&(# over the last few years.
Hey I got an idea, let's have all gnome apps written in a new scripting language, let's called it Magic Gnome Script, (MGS), that script is then interpreted threw a runner, written in javascript, running inside a special gnome app viewer, running in a virtual environment, running inside...
In any case, everything you say is obvious bullshit.
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Originally posted by andresmi View PostUgh, I see no benefits and only downsides. It will be even slower, introduce new bugs, and provide no real security IMO. But this seems to be the trend in gnome, let's take what works well, break it, remove any useful features, add a 1000 new bugs, do tons of random pointless things, add features that are broken and useless and make it run as slow as humanly possible.
I don't think the ability to run applications that are not packaged this way is going away.
Slower? Seems like there will be some magic going on when the app is started, but after that there shouldn't be any performance hit. Unless you have read something I missed, in which case you are welcome to enlighten me.
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Originally posted by kigurai View PostThe current status is highly sub-optimal, as you are probably aware of.
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