Crinos

I agree with you bes... All though, I am a linux fan.. i think that building a linux based frontend could get screwed up with constant changes in kernel, distros and packages.
Windows is slower, but allso more stable in it's core coding.

Building a one app frontend, with appflow style display of modules, gives the coder a posibility to cut all the crap and just build a program that works, and lett others do the fancy dancy skinning GUI thing!

As the coder finish up the app, he/she could and should, write a little. "this is my app, and this is how you use it".

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Unless you are writing a driver that depends on some kernel API then you will almost *never* have to make any modifications to your application when new versions of the kernel come out. As for packages, it's rare that a library API changes enough to require you to change anything in your application.

Speaking from experience, and I've been coding through 6 versions of ubuntu now, I've only had to update my code when a new version of gcc comes out and my app no longer compiles. Those fixes are easy and actually make my code more compliant to standards so I have no problem making those changes. Plus, gcc updates like once a year if that...

I think the benefits of the constant flow of bug fixes and new features from upstream libraries and dependencies outweigh the risks. For example, when a new, easier API comes out for wifi management, I jump all over it.

Best of all, users who use Linux aren't locked into a legacy version of an OS. Linux is always fresh, clean, fast and free. And it gets better with every release (which can be every 6 months depending on your flavor). You are almost guaranteed that the next version won't be a slow bloated blob that won't even run on your hardware. And if flavor X does run slower, there's always flavor Y and Z that don't suffer the same problem.

BTW, I don't think that anyone *should* code their FE for Linux. I think they should code their FE for whatever OS they are most comfortable coding and whatever OS they feel is more appropriate for their target user group.

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Crinos

Ah.. I should probably admitt that I have only once made a program for linux, and updated my system, and the program never worked after that. (and that's when I started to code in windows instead).

Crinos

(Sorry for not just editing my own previous post)....

A crazy ide just struck me... Would it be possible to make a frontend application with PHP?
I think it would. And with the use of HTML/CSS, the skin can be just the way you want it to be.

GPS Logger with PHP, possible
Audio/Video player/controller with PHP, possible
Audio streaming, Most defenetly possible
Phone interaction, dunno....

Think I will experiment a little with this...
As long as I can get php to talk with my IBUS controller, this could be what I want to do... Just because I can, not because it's practicall...

A system like this, could run on every possible OS that supports a webserver, php and sql. It would be scalable, since one could build new modules, and GUI can be "shipped" standard, or left to the user to custom build the GUI as they want it.

It might be a bit slower than other front end system available...


scrapp??? or a good idea?

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Edit - I basically threadjacked this thread to tear off on a different idea I have about the future of mobile computing.

I have moved that thread and some of the comments to here: "Mobile Manifesto"

We now return you to our regular programming. Back OT!

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I remember someone posting about that idea a while ago, he said he was making progress, but I don't think he was ever heard from again.

Hmmm. Could be dangerous.

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Found it...
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/othe...-omnidash.html

Not PHP exactly but it sounds like he was using a web browser to render the UI, which a PHP-based app would also need to do.

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