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by mpyne
4735 days ago
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> It's what the major players, that is the most popular distros, support by default. You know in the context of everything that's been going on, I really didn't think the "No True Scotsman" for the night was going to be about GTK+. Sure, if you slice and dice your definitions enough to "toolkit supported by default if I don't run the headless install of distros which coldtea defines as 'major'" then you might come away with GTK+ as a standard toolkit. But even that wouldn't exclude Qt as a standard toolkit. It gets picked up by the package manager just the same on all major distros, except possibly for Fedora Apparently everything else is "Marginal" in your book? I'm sorry you seem to take it so personally that you had to whip out the e-penis and establish the supremacy of your chosen toolkit (and the Google native SDK??), but by all means let me step back and stay quiet so you can flex. |
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That _I_ "define as major"? You do know that Linux distributions follow a popularity power law distribution, right? With a few, like Ubuntu, RedHat, etc at the top. This has nothing to do with "subjective opinion".
Don't see why you brought up the "headless install" in the play either -- since just before you said about QT being a native GUI toolkit. QT is not native in a "headless install" either, so those are beside the point.
>Apparently everything else is "Marginal" in your book?
My book again? For one, Linux desktop use is marginal in itself, registering as just a 1% blip. Second, of that, there are popular and marginal distributions. If you don't like marginal, I doubt you'd like Wikipedia's term, which is "fringe".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution#Popular_dist...
It was a discussion about GUI toolkits, and you made it into a BS ad hominem attack -- as if usage statistics is something unknown that I pulled out of my ass. In short, your argument is bad, and you should feel bad.