[Lazarus] Lazarus (is completely borked) on Ubuntu Oneiric

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 09:52:53AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Unity is certainly generating a lot of controversy, as are Gnome v3 and 
>> KDE v4, and it might be best for Lazarus to wait until things settle 
>> down and the GUI originators reach consensus before trying to 
>> accommodate them.
> 
> Correct. And a flag that it doesn't work with some major system feature
> (like GUI) is a task for the package system, and not the application.
> 
> IOW, IMHO in such case Debian or Ubuntu should specify how to flag our
> debian packages for non-Unity conformance so that non X using Debian spins
> can pick this up.

It would be interesting to know what freedesktop.org, responsible for 
standardising various parts of the desktop hence indirectly for things 
like xdgopen, has to say about the "unholy mess" that Gnome, KDE et al. 
are making of things.

If programs are suddenly not starting up properly it implies that 
somebody is starting to ignore agreed standards.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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