Ideally, you work out the requirements. Then you formulate those requirements in code, via the static type system and/or automated unit+integration tests. And then you implement your code to match those requirements (compiler stops complaining and tests are green).
Ideally, you don’t have to actually run the whole application to feel confident enough about your changes, although obviously you would still do that eventually, for example before publishing a release.
Yeah, really happy about this. $WORKPLACE uses Ubuntu and the Snap is just mildly broken in multiple ways. The .tar.bz2 works, but we would have had to script the download + creation of the .desktop file. We successfully procrastinated doing the latter long enough, that Mozilla fixed it.
I read up on it at some point and it was essentially a matter of their UI framework just being custom-implemented. Any advanced UI concept would need so much overwhelming support from the community, that a core dev then sits down for a few months to dish out the necessary UI components, that this is just not really happening. The core devs aren’t exactly bored most of the time anyways.
Having said that, they did recently renovate the settings menu using the UI components they already had, and that turned out really cool.
Also, I do feel like some smaller improvements could be made without big code changes, but yeah, those then end up in too many discussions.
The font has been discussed many times. To give you a taste:
Many want a font with fantasy style, but Minetest can also depict a futuristic setting. Others want a blocky font, but those usually aren’t very legible (i.e. accessible) and often only support a narrow range of languages.
I think, just a font, which looks less serious and less thin, already improves it massively, but you can’t even get folks to agree on that, because well, if the font is tweaked, you might need to adjust lots of UI components and mods and such to work with the different font dimensions. So, if a font change is made, people want to get it perfect from the start.
The button gradients are another case, where most people agree that something else would look better and it could be easily changed, but discussions just never end.
The community is just so big and so public, that there’s always someone new joining into the discussion, so that no consensus can occur…
Yeah, I’m chalking that up to Python’s untypedness. I was going to write “integers”, but technically that function takes a “num”, whatever that is.
For all we know, it could be a string, asking ChatGPT to hack the government. Is that even? Probably no. Or None. Or T-Rex. Without reading the entire function, we don’t know that it’s not returning T-Rex.
Thankfully, it doesn’t matter. Just stick the result into an if-else, then False and None will land you in the else-branch. And both True and our Truthiness-Rex will land you in the if-branch. Just as Guido intended.
I don’t know why you’re trying to interpret all kinds of things into my comment. I did not say any of that. This isn’t some competition to show who’s technically more correct.
Because many apps will (or would prefer to) only be bundled as Flatpak. I agree that the deduplication is not a trivial problem to solve, even if they might have already solved it for DEBs (I don’t know).
But your entire comment could just as well be a rant why Canonical shouldn’t have introduced Snaps in the first place. It might be good for their bank account, if they can somehow monetize part of the cake, but splitting the cake even further, after it’s already split into DEB, RPM, AppImage, Flatpak, Docker, APK etc., that’s maximum user confusion.
Well, yeah, you can enable it. But if it’s not active in their GUI software store by default, then many users will not find / look for it. It’s rather important for a package format that you don’t have to separately install it.
If you’re on Ubuntu, you can just ask your question in the normal Linux community or in a search engine. You don’t need to go to a special Ubuntu community.
That’s at least, how it makes sense to me. In general, I’ve seen many niche distros have very active communities, because everyone just ruts together and helps each other out.
…which is to say, I don’t think there are accurate marketshare statistics, because no telemetry, but my impression is also that Ubuntu is still popular out in the wild.