Hi I am new to bitshares, and wanna share my experience. I just tried the latest client 0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 amd64.
First I downloaded the binaries from Scotts PPA. Later a built the client from sources on github. In both cases everything looks identical including bugs.
* I have to say the command line version works perfectly, without any glitch.
The GUI (Qt) version is unusable. I try to describe how it functions.
* After running the app, tens of JSON parse errors appears in notification and counting. The "show details" link doesn't work.
* There is a "Not connected" network status in the footer.
* There is a big red warning on the asset page: "Cannot get market status. Probably no orders have been placed." and the app doesn't show my asset balance.
(I didn't figured out how to check assets balance in cmd client)
* And now the interesting part:
After quiting the app it fails to run again. It also deletes the downloaded blockchain! I did a quick inspect and find out this:
Right after first run, the app immediately corrupts the config.json file. Notice the period replaced by comma at the end of file.
Normal config.json
"wallet_callback_url": "",
"client_debug_name": "",
"growl_notify_endpoint": null,
"growl_password": null,
"growl_bitshares_client_identifier": null,
"relay_fee": 0.10000000000000001,
"light_relay_fee": 0.10000000000000001,
"relay_account_name": "",
"faucet_account_name": "",
"track_statistics": true
}
Corrupted config.json
"wallet_callback_url": "",
"client_debug_name": "",
"growl_notify_endpoint": null,
"growl_password": null,
"growl_bitshares_client_identifier": null,
"relay_fee": 0,
10000000000000001,
"light_relay_fee": 0,
10000000000000001,
"relay_account_name": "",
"faucet_account_name": "",
"track_statistics": true
}
I hope you guys will ironing out these glitches and will make the Qt client usable on linux.
I will follow the progress and will check the updates on a regular basis from an end user perspective.