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by smoldesu 1544 days ago
Well, for starters, Planner is also a native application written in Vala/GTK. The only non-native part about it is that you're forced to run it as a Flatpak (which is a bummer), but that makes it just about equally as "native" as any sandboxed Mac app.

Almost to a comedic extent, Planner does copy a lot of the touches that Things has. For example, dragging the plus icon in the corner to a folder will create a new task there, much like Things. Each section of checkboxes also gets a tiny status indicator, and everything in it is drag-and-droppable. I understand your skepticism, but this really is a complete ripoff of Things in a glorious way. If nothing else, you can't deny the fact that it's more bang-for-your-buck being free and whatnot.
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bastardoperator 1544 days ago
I rather pay a developer for support and continued development. If the only difference between these apps is one is a rip off of the other and doesn't cost, that's not a very compelling argument from my limited perspective.

Also, the commit comments on this project are total WTF.

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smoldesu 1544 days ago
> I rather pay a developer for support and continued development. If the only difference between these apps is one is a rip off of the other and doesn't cost, that's not a very compelling argument from my limited perspective.

If you're adverse to taking things for free, you're always welcome to donate to the lead maintainer. Nobody is forcing you to take stuff for free, but conversely, arguing that something must be lower quality because you didn't spend more money on it isn't a very compelling argument either. Sounds like the same argument all those proprietary UNIX vendors made before... well, they became irrelevant.

> Also, the commit comments on this project are total WTF.

Man, imagine if you could look inside the VCS for Things... Who knows what kind of dragons lurk in there.

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awilfox 1544 days ago
Forced to run it as a Flatpak would have been a dealbreaker for me since Flatpak apps don't support Power and my main desktop was the libre Talos II.

Looks like it is missing deadline support, otherwise you are right that it is almost a comedic clone of Things: https://github.com/alainm23/planner/issues/888

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howinteresting 1538 days ago
idk man, you're running Linux on an obscure architecture with miniscule market share and complaining about things not working.

Just build an x86_64 desktop like a normal person. You'll even be able to add storage to it as you need, something you can't do on macOS.

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smoldesu 1544 days ago
Yeah, Flatpaks really are a shame in general. I don't blame anyone for disliking them, and I personally stopped using Planner after they (seemingly intentionally) broke support for native installation.

As for deadlines, my strategy was to simply put tasks on the day they were due, since they would be aggregated in lists regardless of when they were dated. However, I can't deny it's missing the feature.

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