I gave Archi on Linux some love this week. This involved de-commissioning my VM installation of Ubuntu 10.10 under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook and instead installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) on my Windows machine (which works quite nicely). This makes it easier to access and flip between Linux and my main Windows development environment. Guess what? The Hints View on Archi doesn’t work. It uses the native Browser component and the very boring reason is that this requires xulrunner-1.9.2 to work properly. See here. Why should the user (or indeed, I) have to care about this stuff? Why can’t it just work? This is the never-ending story of cross-platform development…
…oh and Ubuntu Natty Narwhal fell out of the Ugly Tree big time. When will Linux developers wake up to to the real world and realise that a god-forsaken UI like Unity or Gnome won’t cut it in 2011. It’s not 1981 anymore…
