Re: About writing new apps from scratch

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 02/16/2014 06:23 PM, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it is a waste of effort to start writing new apps from scratch, 
> instead of improving the existing applications.
>
> To give two examples:
> - GNOME Music, instead of working on Rhythmbox or Banshee (or …);
> - GNOME Photos, instead of working on eog or Shotwell (or …).
In addition to what Emmanuelle said, this is not always the case (see
GNOME Videos = Totem).

Stefan

> The existing applications have more features and a more mature code 
> base. If the code is a bit old and have too many hacks, a better idea in 
> my opinion is to improve the existing code, instead of starting a new 
> project from scratch. And if old code are never cleaned up, the same 
> problem will happen with the new applications in 10 years.
>
> Creating a new design is nice, but if it means to rewrite applications 
> from scratch, there is a problem somewhere. Unless there are good 
> underlying libraries that do all the complicated work, and thus the 
> application would be just the UI to glue together the different 
> features.
>
> So, what do you think? What are the reasons for GNOME Music and GNOME 
> Photos? I want to better understand.
>
> Best regards,
> Sébastien
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