near feature parity

[Richmond]

I have had nothing but 2 small "grunts" with my experience with Livecode 4.5
on Ubuntu, ZevenOS, Mint and various other Debian derivatives.

1. The 'hole' created by Livecode's dependency on Quicktime.

2. Characters in a Unicode-enabled textfield aren't visible (this is 
quite a big grunt in my case).

I should also point out that I have been making and running standalones 
using
version 2.2.1 which was given away free by Novell in my EFL school for some
7 years with not a single glitch. All of those standalones are deployed 
on Pentium 4's
currently running Ubuntu 11.04, and were, in the past, deployed on 
Pentium 3's running
Ubuntu 5.10.

Quite a few of these programs have leveraged MP3 files stored in a 
designated folder in
the Home directory using explicit paths.

I have created some groovy effects using animated GIF images.

Standalones created in the new (as opposed to the "new-new", i.e. post 
5.5) format
using LC 4.5 won't run on boxes running Ubuntu 5.10; in cases where I 
needed to run standalones
on machines running Ubuntu <8.04 developed using LC 4.5 I have had to 
save the source stacks
in 'legacy' format and build from them with RR 2.2.1.

However, all my standalones have been deployed for a reason which 
Runtime Revolution
(the company) are not very good at addressing: educational content delivery
and reinforcement; so, as to reaching out onto the internet, 
communicating with a server,
and so on, I really cannot say anything.

Certainly, as far as I have used LC in the context of my EFL school I 
have nothing but
the highest praise.

My main grunt is with my desire to deploy a version of my Devawriter Pro 
un Linux;
but have not worked out how to get Unicode glyphs to show up properly in 
Unicode-enabled
textfields.

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I have carefully qualified that all my work with LC+Linux has been with 
Debian derivatives,
for the very simple reason that that is the truth; so I really wouldn't 
want my findings being
thought of as applicable to other types of Linux.

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Of course the pricing descrepancy is disgraceful. Of course this can 
also act as a self-fulfilling
prophecy; as fewer people buy the LC package for Linux fewer resources 
will be devoted to developing it;
but as the Linux package is effectively twice as expensive as the Mac & 
Win ones, fewer people
are likely to buy it.

Richmond Mathewson.