The Ubuntu App Showdown • Hacker News Board

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by eru » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:19 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #13

They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…

Excel might be even more approachable. (And it does fall back on VB for more complex tasks.)

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by keithpeter » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:40 PM UTC

Anyone doing a single column outliner with export to html/text and libreoffice? Like Acta for Ubuntu?

Seriously, what Ubuntu Software Centre needs is a 'wanted app' system of some kind. Perhaps people say how much they would pay as well. Could be fun.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by JulianMorrison » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 3:46 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #13

They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…

Gambas[1] is basically VB for Linux, with differences[2] but rooted in the same language.

[1]http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

[2]http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/diffvb?view

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by user49598 » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:00 PM UTC

adambyrtek wrote: post #17

user49598 wrote: post #10

What are the judging criterion for the contest and who judges?

If you read the post you will see the list of judges and criteria.

Haha wow, I'm an idiot. I went straight for the large orange circles and passed off the intro paragraph completely.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by nuaccnt » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

illumen wrote: post #11

All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.

Probably not. (Except as an unusual coincidence.)

Picture from a python conference:

http://www.efytimes.com/admin/useradmin/photo/Pycon-UK.jpg

As in all the other pictures that appears from a google search it's >90% men. It's perfectly understandable that review panels will have >90% men on average, if they select for (presumably equally distributed among programmers) qualifications, passion and interest.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by keithpeter » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:41 PM UTC

factorialboy wrote: post #12

Here's my submission: HumanTask is a personal task manager for humans - http://srirangan.net/2012-06-humantask-is-a-personal-task-ma...

I'll have a play when you release it on the USC

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by dalore » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:47 PM UTC

freehunter wrote: post #13

They talk about Rapid Application Development, and it makes me sad. It makes me sad because I still haven't found a RAD tool that works on the same level of Visual Basic. Forgetting all the things Visual Basic did wrong, the biggest thing it did right was the UI builder. When you put a button on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you put a text box on the screen, it wrote the code for you. When you double cl…

Flash Builder works how you describe. And the Adobe AIR platform is quite a good platform. It's cross mobile.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by mnazim » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 4:57 PM UTC

My friend(http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=owaislone) is doing a clone of Fluid App(http://fluidapp.com/). He made very good progress in past week and is currently working on proper desktop integration (notify-osd, unity integration, app indicator support) and userscripts support. I am really looking forward to it.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by illumen » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 5:05 PM UTC

nuaccnt wrote: post #25

illumen wrote: post #11

All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.

Probably not. (Except as an unusual coincidence.) Picture from a python conference: http://www.efytimes.com/admin/useradmin/photo/Pycon-UK.jpg As in all the other pictures that appears from a google search it's >90% men. It's perfectly understandable that review panels will have >90% men on average, if they select for (presumably equally distributed among programmers) qualifications, passion and interest.

More than 50% of app purchasers are women, so there's definitely plenty of women who would be interested in doing this.

Re: The Ubuntu App Showdown

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Post by jcastro » Mon, Jun 25, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #2

Interesting that they talk about "Ubuntu" apps rather than Linux apps. I wonder if this is just a marketing thing or if they are going to try and get "exclusive" apps that are not available on other distros?

This isn't a marketing thing or trying to lock other distributions out, it's about having a simple platform that people can make applications on without having to drink from a firehose.

Ubuntu-as-a-platform can make opinionated choices what to support. This is why when someone asks "How do I make an application for Ubuntu" you can answer with "Quickly and Python" instead of "well that depends."

It's nice to have a default.