Scott Ritchie wrote:
On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 22:28 +0100, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
Le mardi 25 janvier 2005 à 21:13 +0100, Michael Drüing a écrit :
Here's something I noticed when I last wanted to find some info in the AppDB. Browsing through the database is really well organized, but what I find a bit confusing was the "Rating with Windows" and "Rating without Windows" graphs in the version-overview of some application. What do 3 or 4 stars there really mean? Do users like this app? use this app? Or does it have to do with how well the app runs under Wine? If so, then why is there a "rating with Windows" at all? Normally you already know/use the app you are looking for, and if not, you'd select an app by how well it runs in wine, right? So either way, you don't really care for a "Rating with Windows" (at least I dont ;-)
"Rating with Windows" mean rating when using a real windows partition. This rating might have good reasons to be here in the past (when most apps needed many native dlls) but is now regarded as a bad feature by some of AppDB hackers. Maybe some other readers here can say what they think about the removal of this feature ?
It should be removed, and if we are going to replace it, it should be "rating with custom DLLs" or something like that. That way we can indicate if it requires something like native DCOM to run.
That is an idea. hum..
Also, I eagerly anticipate the maintainer ratings patches, as those will be much more important for getting useful information about how well a program works than the voting.
The maintainer rating system is in place already. Only the index page (Supported Apps) remains to be redone and I personally would like to see maintainers for the remaining apps there before we change it. What else is missing that you are you looking foward to?
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Tony Lambregts