On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:19:45 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Terry Porter wrote:
>
>> I wrote a GUI program using the GLADE GUI designer for GTK2-Perl, to
>> do this job. My coding is shabby, but that's my fault as I'm an
>> electronics technician, not a programmer.
>>
>> The GUI looks ok, but it's not designed by a professional GUI
>> designer, it's designed by me.
>
> The interface is fine for a small, self-used app. To improve it for public
> consumption I would group like items together and draw boxes around them
> (weight and height/length/width in one box labeled 'Dimensions',
> cost-related items in another box, replace 'Click For' with 'Calculate' or
> 'Calc', spell out the word Total, etc)
>
>
>
>> http://wifi.homelinux.com/docuwiki/d...d=wiki:auspost
>>
>> The Wintrolls will soon be jumping all over this thread with the usual
>> nonsense, their aim is to try and stop you seeing the kind of stuff
>> you can easily do with Linux, for Free.
>
> heh...yeah, that's our goal alright... stop people from seeing small-time
> OSS (cr)apps.
>
> We're too late, though, to stop Debian from including a bunch of pieces of
> junk in their 'stable' repository.
>
>
>
>> If they claim the same program is available for Windows, ask them to
>> provide a *specific* URL.
>
> The same? You mean the same little postage calculator app, or the same
> development tools?
>
> There are thousands of free postal calculators, both online and downloadable
> apps
> http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...creenshot.html
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=postage+calculators
>
>
> In either case, why would I use POS like Glade/GTK-perl when I can get
> various flavors of Microsoft Visual Studio for free?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/express/product/default.aspx
>
>
> You sure are ignorantly provincial there in NSW la-la land. And you're
> starting to be wrong everytime you post. And you're way too full of your
> boring self, and Linux.

Once again the Linux advocate, in this case Terry Porter, re-invents the
wheel and gets it square.........

It's totally amazing.


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