[Thunar-dev] Some minor thingies...

[Peter]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>Though, to be perfectly frank, no one should have brought up the patent
>>issue at all.  If we didn't know about it, and implemented it anyway,
>>Apple could certainly sue someone, but they'd be more likely to just
>>settle for a C&D letter that requires the feature's removal.  They might
>>even not care, it being an OSS project and all.
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>>Now that we know it's possibly patented, it becomes willful
>>infringement, and if Apple chose to, they could kick some ass, at least
>>in the US.  Willful infringement carries much larger penalties than
>>accidental.
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>>This is one of the reason most people will recommend that engineers and
>>technology innovators not research patents at all.  (Well, up until they
>>want to actually patent their work, anyway.)
>>
>>But yeah, IANAL.  This is just shit I've heard.
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>Well, attached is a patch if anybody cares to find out if we'd run into
>trouble. The attached patch enables dnd open for the shortcuts pane (the
>delay isn't really configurable yet).
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The checkbutton status is backwards. 
exo_mutual_binding_new_with_negation should be just
exo_mutual_binding_new.  Nice patch though ;).  I only hope it can be
taken farther.

>>	-b
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>Benedikt
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