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Originally Posted by poglad
So you're saying that making an alternative front-end to Calibre's GUI should be dismissed as a valid project? He should either rewrite the back-end too, or give up?
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No, writing a new front-end for Calibre would be fine, is the developer said that he was going to do exactly that. "I don't like the GUI of this program. I'm going to write a new GUI." That's how open source works.
Instead, he said he didn't like Calibre because it didn't work like he wanted it to work, and that it didn't do what he wanted it to do. He aspires to replace Calibre with his own product.
That is fine too, but if you say that, but then you should actually write your own product; not a closed source program that basically runs on top of the core logic of the product you don't like. That's lame.
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Personally I think the back-end is where the real power lies, and when it comes to designing new approaches that get that power into the hands of more users, I'm all for it. Calibre's front-end is gross (IMO) and something less 1995-looking would be a pleasure to use.
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I agree, but then you're improving Calibre's looks, user experience, speed, or whatever, and not aspiring to replace it.