Saturday, August 29, 2009

A New Paradigm for Open-Source Software

Tweakability is the name of the game. If you don't give your user the means of customizing the software your written, it's not really open-source - even if the source code is available. What do we need then? We need to provide a package that contains both the source and the building tool. The user shouldn't have to install anything except press a button to get the end result. That will really give us great free software.

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Better Crimson Editor

1) Have a decent forum that's easy to access - like AHK's - shouldn't be necessary if you just have a decent product. It's way better than anything M$ has, but still leaves some to be desired. Unfortunately, my NEdit is a bit unstable on my current Cygwin setup - could be the XWin thing too
2) Allow CTRL-Scrollwheel to change the view-zoom level
3) Allow triple-click to select a whole line. Jeez! why can't they get such basic stuff right?

Friday, August 21, 2009

Better Notepad (M$)

Dear M$,

Please allow the view zoom level to be manipulated with Ctrl-Scroll.

The World