B.K. Johnson wrote:Disclaimer:
I have not read most of the posts in the thread, so if there are any comments below that are not apropos, accept my apologies.
I was the 2nd downloader of MRUF-lst-0.9.7.9.pet, but unlike Pelo I did not run it. I read the requirements and did not have to go through Pelo's torture.
downloaded once from my side. refused at use because of aewm missing, and other stuff.
And you blaimed me as a user, bad user.
I surely will not be using MRUF|D-lst. You don't have to tell me I don't have to. I know!
I am sure it works well and is beautiful in your working environment, but that is non-standard for the majority of puppyians. It isn't the first time I am saying this to you. if you are placing software in the public arena, it is not sufficient just to place a blurb that lists the prerequisites. Maybe Pelo got a pop-up advice that aemenu is missing and was allowed to EXIT gracefully. But, IMHO, good software design demands that the developer make it easy for the target user. An approach that puts the blame on the user for not reading the blurb or running the app blindly is <choose your characterization>.
Maybe you would consider packaging the requirements in MRUF|D, test for each prereq and offer to install it/them if missing. You know, given that option I think I would try it. And if I don't like, it's no sweat to uninstall. It is a lot easier than if I had to search for and install for each prereq,
the version that is sure to work. What's your reaction when you try to install a program and there are missing dependencies? Duh!
With a little nectar you may get more bees.
Get the message; don't kill the messenger.
Hello B.K. Johnson.
I didn't answer Pelo because his comment made it so obvious that he did
not try this script. He wrote a lie.
If he had tried it, he would have found out that
the aewm window
manager is not required.
The lesson we learned on the French side of the forum about Pelo is that
one must double-check everything Pelo says: he's talking through his hat
most of the time. For one true statement, he posts 19 errors -- or just
utter nonsense.
Everything you need to run MRUF-lst is included in the pets. While MRUF-
lst uses the
stand-alone menu application that comes with aewm,
it
is not dependent on the aewm window manager.
Perhaps you should indeed have read some of the previous posts. Barry
Kauler has included this app in his 64-bit Quirky-8.3 "xerus" a couple of
weeks ago. He said that I had done "Great work!" with this.
Ref.:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00622
Now who are you going to believe? An experienced and talented developer
who devoted his life to facilitating people's access to Linux -- or a roving
clown who speaks without having checked the facts 19 times out of 20?
Don't try MRUF-lst if you don't want to. It's your loss -- because, even as I
am still polishing it and adding from time to time new access to histories
of various programs, as it is, it is already a great time-saver.
My intention writing this script was -- and still is -- : how can I save the
user some time. We all know how annoying and time-consuming it is to
drill down in ROX or any file manager to find a text or picture or html
article we saved in a certain directory. Sometimes we flat out don't
remember where we put it, because we lead busy lives -- or whatever.
This is where MRUF-lst kicks in. It groups in one place the paths and
filenames of the texts that you edited or read, of the pictures that you
viewed or touched-up, and of the music you listened to in the last 10 to
15 days. (I have explained in a post above where you can specify that
duration.)
Not only does my MRUF-lst script remember stuff for you, in addition, If
you are paranoid and hate application histories, with MRUF-lst you can do
the exact opposite: erase most of them. (Note -- i say "most" because
removing some Linux system histories will cause said Linux to crash.)
Anyway, believe pelo if you will.
(... self-censored ... )
I have the chance of being fluently bilingual, I participate a lot in the nglish
section, so pelo didn't affect me as much as the others.
I'm staying -- for now.
I'm sorry I had to say the above, but the truth must be known, and I have
to defend my work against pelo's prejudices, which you have
unfortunately espoused.
When you say:
Maybe you would consider packaging the requirements in MRUF|D, test for each prereq and offer to install it/them if missing. You know, given that option I think I would try it. And if I don't like, it's no sweat to uninstall. It is a lot easier than if I had to search for and install for each prereq,
the version that is sure to work. What's your reaction when you try to install a program and there are missing dependencies? Duh!
please have a look at the packages above and you'll see that everything
needed to run MRUF-lst is at your disposal right in this thread. MRUF-lst
has no "dependencies", it's all here.
In conclusion, what you say of my approach and of this script is false.
I am sorry to observe that you fell prey to a rumor started by some clown.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the
town gossip. Billy Graham
From: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/parrot.html
My first name in real life happens to be "Christian" and I gave my pet
parrot away a long time ago. May I suggest you do the same.
Best regards.