If we're asking where are all the parties, I'd also like to ask what are we missing out on by not having them? What is the draw? What are some of the reasons for making the effort to host or go to them?
Your comment really gave me pause. I've used FileMaker for many years but never gave the name that much thought.
I can't say how the name was chosen. But, I believe I understand the justification for it. It is pretty straightforward once the metaphor is clear. The files it is making are the type of files that go into filing cabinets, not the files on a computer. Early versions of the software had a logo/picture of a building that was a giant filing cabinet and the app logo has usually been a filing folder.
The name makes sense in that isn't about making files on a computer but to help small business convert physical files found in filing cabinets into digital ones in wysiwyg database.
I remember finding "Photoshop" nonsensical at first because I associated a shop with a place to go buy things and it only made sense once I made the association that cars and such are taken to the shop for repairs.
It does make more sense in context. Crowley isn't a stereotypical evil demon and could reasonably be considered a failure as a demon.
I think the horror comes from the thought that a being whose entire job is to come up with new and clever ways to bring about human misery and suffering is so thoroughly out-classed. The idea that humanity doesn't need an outside influence to inflict such evil is horrific. The joke is just there as window dressing to contrast the real horrors of our collective history.
I'd be curious to see with other options exist, but the one that I know is Filemaker Pro. I'm only familiar with the stand alone version, and while expensive, to me it sounds exactly like what you're talking about wanting.
I've never used it (and the fact that you need to fill a form to download a demo means that chances are i'll never use it :-P) but judging from the Wikipedia page it looks like it might have been close at some point but somewhere around late 90s/early 2000s it succumbed to the need to excuse its pricepoint and got too overbloated and enterprise-y (i mean, apparently even in 1997 it would act as an FTP server...? :-P).
What i have in mind is more like something between dBase and VB (VB3 at most), but with a fully integrated database that can understand graphics (ie. in addition to data types like text, number, etc it also has graphics), a more GUI driven workflow for basic stuff (e.g. instead of placing a button in a form and doubleclicking it to enter in a code editor where i type something like "form2.show" to show a second form, instead i have a dialog appear that provides some common tasks like "show a dialog, add/revert/delete/etc record, open external file, etc" with "runs script" being an option for when others wont do), being able to either infer table structure from form fields or automatically create forms from tables, etc.
Also completely self contained, no need to install separate "database drivers", or run any sort of server (even locally), just unzip some archive somewhere and run the program from there.
I've been looking at the screenshots you've posted and I'm struggling to see what influence you're seeing in Big Sur that came from Gnome 3.
The best I've come up with is the switch from a two row title bar/header to a one that is integrated into just one row. Which could very well be inspired by Gnome 3 or parallel evolution.
Are there other UI elements that I should be seeing in Big Sur that look like they have inspiration, homage, blatant copying that I'm not seeing here?
To my eye they have a somewhat similar aesthetic but and general layout but their differences are many when looking closer.
There is something about the bias of this article that bugs me. It feels like it is trying to rewrite history to suit its narrative.
It implies that developers used to be able to create whatever programs they wanted thanks to Cydia prior to the App Store. This was never the case, the Cydia ecosystem was based on unintended buggy behavior.
In the beginning Apple was clear that there were no native apps, only web apps or whatever they called them. They eventually reversed course and implemented the App Store for native apps but was that because of Cydia? That's just speculation.
Personally I always speculated that they weren't ready and in classic Apple fashion pretended the idea of native apps was stupid until they were ready.
Should Apple be forced to support other app stores or side loading? I don't know. I do feel like there are good arguments for it but they should be allowed to stand on there own merit without skewing the narrative.
